Patricia Pisters: The Matrix of Visual Culture. Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (2003)

This book explores Gilles Deleuze’s contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.

Publisher Stanford University Press, 2003
Cultural Memory in the Present series
ISBN 0804740283, 9780804740289
303 pages

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Mel Alexenberg: Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (2006)

“This book develops the thesis that the transition from pre-modernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture.

Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the contemporary confluence between the deep structure of Hebraic consciousness and new directions in art that arise along the interface between scientific inquiry, digital technologies, and multicultural expressions.

Complementing these two analytic methodologies, alternative methodologies of kabbalah and halakhah provide postmodern methods for extending into digital age art forms. Exemplary artworks are described in the text and illustrated with photographs.”

Publisher Intellect Books, 2006
ISBN 1841502065, 9781841502069
187 pages

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Oleksiy Radynski: Optical Unconscious in Visual Culture (2008) [Ukrainian]

Study of the interaction of Marxist and psychoanalytic projects in theory and practice of documentary films in 1920s and 1930s.

В роботі досліджується взаємодія марксистського та психоаналітичного проектів в теорії та практиці неігрового кіно 1920-30-х років.

Master thesis
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Supervisor: Michael Sobutskiy

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