Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event [electronic resource] : Peephole Art /
Gardner, C.author.
An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and 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 incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Intuition/Image/Event: 'Beckett's Peephole' as Audio-Visual Rhizome; 1 Thinking the Unthinkable: Time, Cinema and the Incommensurable; 2 Beyond Percept and Affect: Beckett's Film (1964) and Non-Human Becoming; 3 From 'Dialoghorrhea' to Mental-Image: Comédie (1966), Not I (1977) and What Where (1986); Photo Section; 4 Matter and Memory: The Image as Impersonal Process in Eh Joe (1966), Ghost Trio (1977) and ...but the cloud... (1977); 5 How to Build a Desiring Machine: Quad I & II (1981)
6 Video-body, Video-brain: Nacht und Träume (1983) as Televisual EventConclusion: The Incommensurable Unnamable: Beckett, Deleuze and the Birth of the Event; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and 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 incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Motion pictures—History.
British literature.
Philosophy.
Critical theory.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Motion pictures and television.
Film History.
British and Irish Literature.
Philosophy, general.
Critical Theory.
Directing.
Screen Studies.