Gilles Deleuze's Cinema Books Part 3: The Frame
In this video, our third installment on Gilles Deleuze's cinema books, we look at the beginning of Chapter 2 of Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, entitled Frame and Shot, Framing and Cutting. In particular, I emphasize how the categories of film form that Deleuze examines in this chapter--frame, shot, montage--are related to his responses to Henri Bergson's philosophy of movement and time in the first chapter, especially the role that "closed set" and "open whole" will play in his analyses of films in the entire book.
The bulk of the discussion is analysis of what Deleuze calls the "out-of-field" (hors champ), an idea similar to what Noel Burch and others have called "offscreen space." Film examples include The Lonedale Operator (Griffith), The Marriage Circle (Lubitsch), Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino), The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer), and Ordet (Dreyer).
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