Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy well
known for his works on the philosophy of art and for his master-works Difference and
Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus . Cinema I is the
first volume of Deleuze's revolutionary work on the theory of cinema (concluded in Cinema II
also available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series). Drawing on the philosophy of Henri
Bergson Deleuze identified his work as "a logic of the cinema" setting out to "isolate
certain cinematographic concepts" philosophically. To do this he brings together diverse
examples from a variety of major filmmakers including Ingmar Bergman Charlie Chaplin Sergei
Eisenstein and Alfred Hitchcock among many others.
