TY - JOUR

T1 - A Deleuzian Imaginary: the films of Jean Renoir

AU - Rushton, Richard

PY - 2011/7

Y1 - 2011/7

N2 - This article contrasts the notion of a Deleuzian imaginary with that articulated by various film theorists during the 1970s and 1980s. Deleuze offers us, I argue, a way to conceive of the imaginary in the cinema in a positive way; that is, as something which opens up new expressions of the real. By contrast, for film theorists of the 1970s and 1980s, the imaginary was primarily conceived as a negative concept, as something which offered merely escapes or fraudulent distortions of the real. A Deleuzian imaginary for the cinema can be articulated, I argue, by way of the films of Jean Renoir.

AB - This article contrasts the notion of a Deleuzian imaginary with that articulated by various film theorists during the 1970s and 1980s. Deleuze offers us, I argue, a way to conceive of the imaginary in the cinema in a positive way; that is, as something which opens up new expressions of the real. By contrast, for film theorists of the 1970s and 1980s, the imaginary was primarily conceived as a negative concept, as something which offered merely escapes or fraudulent distortions of the real. A Deleuzian imaginary for the cinema can be articulated, I argue, by way of the films of Jean Renoir.

KW - Imaginary

KW - cinema

KW - time-image

KW - crystal-image

KW - Jean Renoir

U2 - 10.3366/dls.2011.0019

DO - 10.3366/dls.2011.0019

M3 - Journal article

VL - 5

SP - 241

EP - 260

JO - Deleuze Studies

JF - Deleuze Studies

SN - 1755-1684

IS - 2

ER -