Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

• Beckett
• cinema
• film
• philosophical writing
• philosophy
• television
• video
• British and Irish Literature

• University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  Colin Gardner

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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