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Article: The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema. (Books).
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- Film Criticism
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- September 22, 2001
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The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema. Ed. Gregory Flaxman. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Pr., 2000. 344 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper)
Gilles Deleuze's two books on cinema have been largely misunderstood or ignored. (1) Deleuze--excuse me, Master Deleuze--thinks from the outside. The Master is not a fascist. The Master does not ascribe to the philosophy and science of the Enlightenment. The Master does not belong to the way of thinking that has been totally responsible for all the misery of the twentieth century. Therefore only the Master can save us from the visual turn, its profiteers, and its proliferation of debilitating images. ...