# Gilles Deleuze [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze) ( 1925 – 1995 ) ## Description French philosopher whose two-volume *Cinema 1: The Movement-Image* and *Cinema 2: The Time-Image* build a taxonomy of cinematic signs and images out of Bergsonian and Peircean philosophy, arguing that postwar cinema breaks from sensory-motor "movement-images" toward "time-images" that present time directly rather than through action. ## Key Tags #philosophy #cinema-1 #cinema-2 ## Essential Works - *Cinema 1: The Movement-Image*. University of Minnesota Press, 1986 (Fr. 1983). - classification of pre-war cinema by movement-image types (perception-, action-, affection-image) - *Cinema 2: The Time-Image*. University of Minnesota Press, 1989 (Fr. 1985). - argues postwar cinema (neorealism onward) breaks from action toward images that present time directly - [[A Thousand Plateaus]] - written with Félix Guattari; source of the stratification and molar/molecular vocabulary that underlies his broader philosophical system ## Details ### Cinema 1: The Movement-Image Classifies cinema through the movement-image and its Peircean sub-types (perception-image, action-image, affection-image), grounded in Bergson's theses on movement and duration. ### Cinema 2: The Time-Image Argues that postwar cinema (Italian neorealism onward) increasingly presents "pure optical and sound situations" that break the sensory-motor link of the movement-image, allowing time itself — rather than movement in service of action — to become directly perceptible. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Philosophy]] - Deleuze's cinema books and collaborative work with Guattari are core texts of poststructuralist continental philosophy in this vault ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% (Félix Guattari, co-author of *A Thousand Plateaus* and *Anti-Oedipus*, does not yet have a page in this vault) ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Deleuze, Gilles. *Cinema 1: The Movement-Image*. University of Minnesota Press, 1986. Deleuze, Gilles. *Cinema 2: The Time-Image*. University of Minnesota Press, 1989. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Deamer, David. "Hyalosigns." In *Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images*. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. [link](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2jwb.23). Rodowick, David. *Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine*. Duke University Press, 1997. [link](https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822396871).