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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 -