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An expressive dialogue between Gilles Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Samuel 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 unrepresentable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole. While focusing specifically on Film (1964), the television adaptations of dramatic works such as Play, Not I and What Where, as well as the made-for-TV productions of Eh Joe, ...but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Quad I & II and Nacht und Traume, this book is more than an exploration of Beckett's TV work through a specific Deleuzean filter. More importantly, it is also an opportunity to re-examine Deleuze's Cinema 1 and 2 - specifically the affect- and time-images - through Beckett's specific audio-visual 'peephole.' Given Beckett's obvious compatibility with Kafka and minor literature, this study contextualizes his television work in relation to Deleuze's writings on cinema as a whole, and by extension, the ontology and semiotics of film and televisual language.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event
• Subtitle: Peephole Art
• Author: C. Gardner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 226
• EAN: 9781137014351
• ISBN: 1137014350
• ID: 04770527
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 416 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 223 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. October 2012

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