DOI: 10.4231/h8d0-ck34
title: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Lecture 15, 20 April 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 20 April 1982 lecture, topics of discussion include: the actor and the game of acting; the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and the crack (&lt;em&gt;f&ecirc;lure&lt;/em&gt;); mode of being (&lt;em&gt;habitus&lt;/em&gt;), weariness (&lt;em&gt;fatigue&lt;/em&gt;), and the realist degradation of the American way; the alcoholic sheriff; micro-fissures; the act of rupture and the act of survival; the violence of origins and of impulses; cinematic Realism; the Greek-American director Elia Kazan; the Actors Studio; Josef von Sternberg; thirdness; the small form of the action-image; and English silent film actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and the action of the train.&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 20 avril 1982, les sujets de discussion comprennent: l&#39;acteur et le jeu d&#39;acteur; l&#39;&eacute;crivain am&eacute;ricain F. Scott Fitzgerald et la f&ecirc;lure; l&rsquo;&lt;em&gt;habitus&lt;/em&gt;, la fatigue et la d&eacute;gradation r&eacute;aliste de &agrave; l&rsquo;am&eacute;ricaine; le sh&eacute;rif alcoolique; les micro f&ecirc;lures; l&#39;acte de rupture et l&#39;acte de survie; la violence des origines et des pulsions; r&eacute;alisme cin&eacute;matographique; le r&eacute;alisateur gr&eacute;co-am&eacute;ricain Elia Kazan; les Actor Studio; Josef von Sternberg; tierc&eacute;it&eacute;; la petite forme de l&#39;image-action; et l&rsquo;acteur et cin&eacute;aste anglais muet Charlie Chaplin et l&#39;action du train.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 20 April 1982. This is lecture 15 of a 21-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1981 and June 1982.