1 An Imprint of Godzilla: Deleuze, the Action-Image and Universal History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Deleuze’s World Tour of Cinema 1
5. 1 An Imprint of Godzilla: Deleuze, the Action-Image and Universal History 18
6. 2 Philosophy, Politics and Homage in Tears of the Black Tiger 37
7. 3 Time-Images in Traces of Love: Repackaging South Korea’s Traumatic National History for Tourism 54
8. 4 The Rebirth of the World: Cinema According to Baz Luhrmann 71
9. 5 ‘There are as many paths to the time-image as there are fi lms in the world’: Deleuze and The Lizard 88
10. 6 In Search of Lost Reality: Waltzing with Bashir 104
11. 7 The Schizoanalysis of European Surveillance Films 121
12. 8 Fictions of the Imagination: Habit, Genre and the Powers of the False 137
13. 9 Feminine Energies, or the Outside of Noir 155
14. 10 The Daemons of Unplumbed Space: Mixing the Planes in Hellboy 173
15. 11 Digitalising Deleuze: The Curious Case of the Digital Human Assemblage, or What Can a Digital Body Do? 192
16. 12 The Surface of the Object: Quasi-Interfaces and Immanent Virtuality 210
17. Notes on Contributors 227
18. Index 231