DOI: 10.4231/dx9r-za36
title: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Lecture 14, 23 March 1982

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&ldquo;Cinema 1: The Movement-Image&rdquo; was a 21-lecture seminar given from November 1981 to June 1982. This seminar marks the first of four consecutive seminars in which Deleuze presents his theory of film. Here, in large part through the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Deleuze rethinks film as a movement-image, as opposed to a succession of still frames or photographic images. Throughout the course he references a wide variety of filmmakers, critics, and philosophers. As a precursor to the publication of Deleuze&rsquo;s first of two volumes on cinema, &lt;em&gt;Cinema 1: The Movement-Image&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma 1. L&#39;Image-Mouvement&lt;/em&gt;, 1983), this seminar is a valuable resource to researchers interested in Deleuze&rsquo;s film theory, as well as his larger philosophical oeuvre.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the 23 March 1982 lecture, topics of discussion include: the action-image; Erich von Stroheim; Luis Bu&ntilde;uel; the Italian theatre, opera and cinema director Luchino Visconti; and world and milieu, in equilibrium, and without confrontation. Deleuze also discusses the four laws of the large form, or S-A-S (situation-action-situation): 1) the law of action montage, with consideration of Fritz Lang&#39;s &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;M &ndash; Eine Stadt sucht einen M&ouml;rder&lt;/em&gt;); 2) French film critic and theorist Andr&eacute; Bazin&#39;s law, or the law of forbidden montage; 3) the law of the gap between the situation and the action; and 4) the law of the duel, with consideration of the Western.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new version of this dataset includes: the English translation and French transcription in Open Document Text (odt) format, an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the original Paris-8 French transcription of the recorded lecture. The first version, also available, includes the translation and transcription in pdf and txt format and the audio recordings. The aggregate audio file has been downsampled.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze&lt;/em&gt; sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&laquo;L&rsquo;image-mouvement, Leҫons bergsoniennes sur le cin&eacute;ma&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 21 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; de novembre 1981 &agrave; juin 1982. Ce s&eacute;minaire marque le premier de quatre s&eacute;minaires cons&eacute;cutifs dans lesquels Deleuze pr&eacute;sente sa th&eacute;orie du film. Ici, en grande partie gr&acirc;ce &agrave; la philosophie d&#39;Henri Bergson, Deleuze repense le film comme un image-mouvement, par opposition &agrave; une succession d&#39;images fixes ou d&#39;images photographiques. Tout au long du cours, il fait r&eacute;f&eacute;rence &agrave; une grande vari&eacute;t&eacute; des cin&eacute;astes, des critiques et des philosophes. En tant que pr&eacute;curseur de la publication des premiers volumes de Deleuze sur le cin&eacute;ma, &lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma 1. L&#39;Image-Mouvement &lt;/em&gt;(1983), ce s&eacute;minaire est une ressource pr&eacute;cieuse pour les chercheurs int&eacute;ress&eacute;s par la th&eacute;orie du film de Deleuze, ainsi que sa plus grande &oelig;uvre philosophique.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la conf&eacute;rence du 23 mars 1982, les sujets de discussion comprennent: l&#39;action-image; Erich von Stroheim; Luis Bu&ntilde;uel; le directeur du th&eacute;&acirc;tre, de l&#39;op&eacute;ra et du cin&eacute;ma italien Luchino Visconti; et monde et milieu, en &eacute;quilibre, et sans d&eacute;fi. Deleuze discute aussi les quatre lois de la grande forme, ou S-A-S (situation-action-situation): 1) la loi de montage d&#39;action, avec consid&eacute;ration de &lt;em&gt;M le maudit&lt;/em&gt; de Fritz Lang; 2) la loi de la critique de cin&eacute;ma et le th&eacute;oricien fran&ccedil;ais Andr&eacute; Bazin, ou la loi du montage interdit; 3) la loi de l&#39;&eacute;cart entre la situation et l&#39;action; et 4) la loi du duel, avec consid&eacute;ration du western.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 23 March 1982. This is lecture 14 of a 21-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1981 and June 1982.