Deleuze on cinema

A comprehensive user´s guide to Gilles Deleuze´s important work on cinema. Bogue provides an accessible manual to "Cinema I" and "Cinema II", giving readers the background and exposition they need to work through Deleuze´s most complex ideas, most obscure references and densest passages.
Contents: Bergson and cinema: Deleuze´s Bergson; three Bergsonian theses on movement; image, movement, matter, light; the three movement-images. Frame, shot and montage: frame and shot; montage - organic and dialectic; montage - quantitative and intensive. Eighteen signs (more or less); Pierce and signs; the perception-image; the affection-image; the impulse-image; the action-image; the reflection-image; the relation-image. Hyalosigns - crystals of time: opsigns mnemosigns and onirosigns; hyalosigns; crystalline states. Chronosigns - the order of time and time as series: sheets of the past, peaks of the present; Robbe-Grillet, Welles and Resnais; powers of the false; Rouch´s ethnofictions; bodies and categories. Noosigns and lectosigns - images and thought, sight and sound: the classic image of thought; the thought of the outside; the spiritual automaton; silent and audible lectosigns; the modern lectosign; a note on cinema, theater and television.