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1 online resource |
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Introduction: Intuition/Image/Event: 'Beckett's Peephole' as Audio-Visual Rhizome -- Thinking the Unthinkable: Time, Cinema and the Incommensurable -- Beyond Percept and Affect: Beckett's Film (1964) and Non-Human Becoming -- From 'Dialoghorrhea' to Mental-Image: Comedie (1966), Not I (1977) & What Where (1986) -- Matter and Memory: The Image as Impersonal Process in Eh Joe (1966), Ghost Trio (1977), and 'but the clouds' (1977) -- How to Build a Desiring Machine: Quadrat I + II (1981) -- Video-body, Video-brain: Nacht und Tr̃ume (1983) as Tele-Visual Event -- Conclusion: The Incommensurable Unnameable: Beckett, Deleuze and the Birth of the Event |
| Summary |
An expressive dialogue between Gilles Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Samuel Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event -- itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an unrepresentable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole. While focusing specifically on Film (1964), the television adaptations of dramatic works such as Play, Not I and What Where, as well as the made-for-TV productions of Eh Joe, 'but the clouds', Ghost Trio, Quad I & II and Nacht und Tr̃ume, this book is more than an exploration of Beckett's TV work through a specific Deleuzean filter. More importantly, it is also an opportunity to re-examine Deleuze's Cinema 1 and 2 -- specifically the affect- and time-images -- through Beckett's specific audio-visual 'peephole.' Given Beckett's obvious compatibility with Kafka and minor literature, this study contextualizes his television work in relation to Deleuze's writings on cinema as a whole, and by extension, the ontology and semiotics of film and televisual language |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Television adaptations -- History and criticism
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Television adaptations -- History and criticism
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Film theory & criticism.
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Philosophy: aesthetics.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Performing Arts.
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Television adaptations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137014368 |
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1137014369 |
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9781283641180 |
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1283641186 |
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