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Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event

Peephole Art

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Colin Gardner

    1. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 1-12

  3. Thinking the Unthinkable: Time, Cinema and the Incommensurable

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 13-40

  4. Beyond Percept and Affect: Beckett’s Film (1964) and Non-Human Becoming

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 41-62

  5. From ‘Dialoghorrhea’ to Mental-Image: Comédie (1966), Not I (1977) and What Where (1986)

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 63-106

  6. Matter and Memory: The Image as Impersonal Process in Eh Joe (1966), Ghost Trio (1977) and …but the clouds… (1977)

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 107-153

  7. How to Build a Desiring Machine: Quad I & II (1981)

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 154-168

  8. Video-body, Video-brain: Nacht und Träume (1983) as Televisual Event

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 169-182

  9. Conclusion

    • Colin Gardner
    Pages 183-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 190-226
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Colin Gardner

About the author

COLIN GARDNER is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, where he teaches in the departments of Art, Film & Media Studies, Comparative Literature and the History of Art & Architecture. He is the author of critical studies on Joseph Losey and Karel Reisz.

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