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6Visual Art and Self-Construction (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 54 (3): 320-321. 2023.There is no given self. Selves are constructed. What have you done – asks Katrina Mitcheson – to self-construct yourself? The provocative opening of Visual Art and Self-Construction throws us into...
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10Barry Nevin (2018) Cracking Gilles Deleuze's Crystal: Narrative Space-time in the Films of Jean RenoirFilm-Philosophy 25 (2): 212-215. 2021.
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21Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of occupation and political censorship to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the nuclear event appear in post-war Japanese cinema. Using Deleuze’s taxonony of cinema, each chapt…Read more
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9Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of ImagesEdinburgh University Press. 2016.Deleuze’s two Cinema books explore film through the creation of a series of philosophical concepts. Not only bewildering in number, Deleuze’s writing procedures mean his exegesis is both complex and elusive. Three questions emerge: What are the underlying principles of the taxonomy? How many concepts are there, and what do they describe? How might each be used in engaging with a film? This book is the first to fully respond to these three questions, unearthing the philosophies inspiring Deleuze’…Read more
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18Deleuze's Three Syntheses Go to Hollywood: The Tripartite Cinema of Time Travel, Many Worlds and Altered StatesFilm-Philosophy 23 (3): 324-350. 2019.What is called “time travel” cinema is but one aspect in a tripartite series of interweaving modes of disjunctive narration which is also – simultaneously – a cinema of “many worlds” and “altered states”. Exploiting Gilles Deleuze's three syntheses of time, space, and consciousness from Difference and Repetition (1968) allows a conceptual development of these cinematic series through three popular Hollywood film cycles beginning with Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968), The Terminat…Read more
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77A Deleuzian Cineosis: Cinematic Semiosis and Syntheses of TimeDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 5 (3): 358-382. 2011.In Cinema 1 Deleuze creates the taxonomy of the movement-image by extending Henri Bergson's account of the sensory-motor process in Matter and Memory through the semiotic system of Charles Sanders Peirce. Through this nexus of Bergson and Peirce, Deleuze can account for each image and sign, their impetus and their relationship to one another. In contrast, the taxonomy of the time-image, the focus of Cinema 2, is given no such genesis. Rather, the images and signs appear in situ, as if ready-made…Read more
Manchester Metropolitan University
PhD, 2008
Manchester, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy, Misc |