This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philosopher Gilles Deleuzes work on cinema. In the last two decades, Deleuze's two books on film have had an enormous influence on Film Studies, profoundly affecting thinking about movement, time, history, and other topics. Theoretically ambitious and philosophically rich but clearly written by a broad range of established and emerging international film scholars, the chapters in this volume will both contribute to, and in places challenge, the vibrant field of Deleuzian film studies. Topics covered range from the relationship of Deleuze to film criticism; the role of theories of movement; and studies of works by major filmmakers including Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Vincente Minnelli, and Orson Welles. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in Deleuze but to anybody engaged with the close study of film and its philosophical ramifications.

Hoi Lun Law is Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author ofAmbiguity and Film Criticism: Reasonable Doubt (2021).

1. Introduction.- 2. Part 1: Perspectives on Method.- 2. What does Deleuze do when he does film criticism?.- 3. Deleuze and the film in his Mind.- Part 2: Criticism, Philosophy, Theory.- 4. Gilles Deleuze and the Company of Critics: On Kubrick, Time, and Cinema.- 5. Very Slight Differences: Deleuze and the Aesthetics of Cinematic Motion.- 6. . Something Possible, Otherwise I Will Suffocate: A Marginal Reading of Chapter 7, Section 2 of Deleuze's The Time-Image.- Part 3: Films and Filmmakers.- 7. Banish All the World: Deleuze on Chimes at Midnight.- 8. Donen and Minnelli: An Exchange of Energies.- 9. Deleuze and Fellini: And the Ship Sails On. 10. Hypnosis-images: indiscernibility and hypnotic agency in Gilles Deleuze's Heart of Glass.