Gilles Deleuze has produced some of the most important -- and most formidable -- theory on cinema to appear in the last half-century. Deleuze on Cinema provides a thorough and reliable guide to Deleuze's thought on the art of film, elucidating in clear language the shape and thrust of Deleuze's arguments found in his influential books on cinema.

Gilles Deleuze has produced some of the most important -- and most formidable -- theory on cinema to appear in the last half-century. Deleuze on Cinema provides a thorough and reliable guide to Deleuze's thought on the art of film, elucidating in clear language the shape and thrust of Deleuze's arguments found in his influential books on cinema.

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

主编简介： 伊恩·夏皮罗是美国耶鲁大学政治学系教授、系主任。他兴趣广泛，著作主要涉及当代政治理论与社会理论，现阶段的研究重点则主要集中在民主理论方面。他的著作包括《自由理论中权利的演变》（The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory, 1986）、《政治批判》（Political Criticism，1990）、《理性选择理论的病变》（Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory，1994，与唐纳德·格林合著）、《民主的场域》（Democracy’s Place, 1996），以及《民主正义》（Democratic Justice, 1999）等。卡西亚诺·海克考登是耶鲁大学的博士生。他主要致力于当代政治哲学和社会理论的研究。 译者简 张熹珂，女，浙江宁波人。毕业于复旦大学国际关系与...(展开全部)

主编简介： 伊恩·夏皮罗是美国耶鲁大学政治学系教授、系主任。他兴趣广泛，著作主要涉及当代政治理论与社会理论，现阶段的研究重点则主要集中在民主理论方面。他的著作包括《自由理论中权利的演变》（The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory, 1986）、《政治批判》（Political Criticism，1990）、《理性选择理论的病变》（Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory，1994，与唐纳德·格林合著）、《民主的场域》（Democracy’s Place, 1996），以及《民主正义》（Democratic Justice, 1999）等。卡西亚诺·海克考登是耶鲁大学的博士生。他主要致力于当代政治哲学和社会理论的研究。 译者简 张熹珂，女，浙江宁波人。毕业于复旦大学国际关系与...(展开全部)

In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the disc...(展开全部)

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threa...(展开全部)

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the ...(展开全部)