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JBSP review: ‘Visual Art and Self-Construction (2021) by Katrina Mitcheson’ (2023)

by David Deamer
Online ahead of print: 12 April 2023

“Powerful analyses and exquisite readings interweave […] The book is thus perfect for both the general reader as a primer and the seasoned academic working in the fields of modern philosophy and the arts. More importantly, however, this is a deeply personal book from someone immersed in the culture and history of the visual arts as well as deeply occupied by the problems posed by modern philosophy” – David Deamer

Read David Deamer’s review: ‘Visual Art and Self-Construction (2021) by Katrina Mitcheson’ (2023) at Taylor & Francis Online.


Immanence (UVM Blog): ‘Cinema will henceforth be Godardian’

by Adrian J Ivakhiv
27 September 2022

An article by Adrian J Ivakhiv on the cinema of Godard, and Deleuzian film philosophy. With a seemingly bold claim would (on the face of it) appear counterintuitive.

It was nice to be named-checked in this article too, and I loved the way Ivakhiv used my concept of cineosis.

What is cineosis?

Read some more on Godard, Deleuze, and cineosis.


Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions translated into Korean

Translated by Prof. Dr. Kim Hyung Rae for Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Press. Second Edition 2022.

Thank you to Hyung Rae for translating my book Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images into Korean.

Hyung Rae began working on the translation in 2017, just a year after the original English edition was released. The first Korean edition was released in 2019, and has just gone into a revised second edition.

Read some more about the Korean edition of ‘Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images’.


Film-Philosophy review: ‘Barry Nevin (2018) Cracking Gilles Deleuze’s Crystal: Narrative Space-time in the Films of Jean Renoir‘ (2021)

by David Deamer
Volume 25 issue 2, July 2021

“Barry Nevin has written a compelling book that should inspire readers to (re)turn to Renoir […] his analysis of the periscope in Eléna et les hommes is just one of many moments that has changed the way I look at the film in question (p. 166). And if a work of film-philosophy can change the films it has made you watch, it is truly film-philosophy worthy of the name.” – David Deamer

Read David Deamer’s review: ‘Barry Nevin (2018) Cracking Gilles Deleuze’s Crystal: Narrative Space-time in the Films of Jean Renoir‘ (2021) at Film-Philosophy


Film-Philosophy Annual Article Award 2020 – shortlisted for ‘Deleuze’s Three Syntheses Go to Hollywood’ (2020)

17 September 2020

“Film-Philosophy is delighted to announce the results of the Annual Article Award 2020. Each of these works brought new understanding and advanced the field of film-philosophy. The award for outstanding article has been granted to Catherine Wheatley.” – Ben Tyrer

Read my post on being shortlisted for the award and on the awesome winner Catherine Wheatley. With links to the official announcment and the shortlisted essays.


Edinburgh University Press Blog: ‘Beyond time travel in time travel stories and cinema with Gilles Deleuze’ (2020)

6 February 2020

Mind-warping tales of paradox and complexity, history and counter-histories, utopian and dystopian futures. One thing is for sure, however. Time travel stories are not about time travel…

Read ‘Beyond time travel in time travel stories and cinema with Gilles Deleuze’ on the Edinburgh University Press Blog


Film-Philosophy review: ‘David Deamer (2016) Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images‘ (2017)

by Jacques de Villiers
Volume 21 issue 2, June 2017

“Within Anglophone film studies of the last twenty years, perhaps no other philosopher has been the subject of so many monographs, anthologies, and articles as Gilles Deleuze, especially the ideas found in his two books on cinema […] A question inevitably arises, then: do we need another introduction, let alone three?” – Jacques de Villiers

Read Jacques de Villiers’ ‘David Deamer (2016) Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images‘ at Film-Philosophy


Screen review: ‘David Martin-Jones, Deleuze and World Cinemas; David Deamer, Deleuze, Japanese Cinema and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility‘ (2016)

by Tiago de Luca
Volume 57, Issue 3, Autumn 2016

“Thirty years after the original publication of his Cinema books, Deleuze seems to show no sign of loosening his grip on film studies. Two recent additions […] are evidence of his continued hold on the field” – Tiago de Luca

Read Tiago de Luca’s ‘David Martin-Jones, Deleuze and World Cinemas; David Deamer, Deleuze, Japanese Cinema and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility‘ at Screen.


Akira Kurosawa info ‘Review: Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb‘ (2016)

by Vili Maunula
21 August 2016

The Spectre of Impossibility is a well written, clear, insightful and always to-the-point examination of the ways in which Japanese cinema has (and has not) dealt with the atomic bombs… [I]t is the first English language book to properly delve into this subject matter, and I congratulate Deamer for both the depth and the breadth with which he approaches this challenging topic…” – Vili Maunula

Read Vili Maunula’s ‘Review: Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb’ at Akira Kurosawa info


David Martin-Jones interview: ‘On Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility‘ (2014)

David Martin-Jones interviews David Deamer
November 2014

Promotional video for the first volume of Bloomsbury’s Thinking Cinema series filmed at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Watch David Martin-Jones interviewing David Deamer ‘On Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility‘ on YouTube.


Bloomsbury’s Thinking Cinema Book Series Launch (2014)

speeches by David Martin-Jones and Sarah Cooper (series editors) and David Deamer (author)
at Film-Philosophy 2014: A World of Cinemas conference, University of Glasgow, 2 – 4 July, 2014

Website with audio file of speaches given at a wine reception for the launch of the Thinking Cinema book series with author of the first volume, David Deamer.

Visit the Thinking Cinema Book Series Launch homepage at the University of Glasgow website


Choice review ‘Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility’ (2014)

by Robert Ducharme
Volume 52 issue 5, May 2014

In a 30-page introduction… Deamer… lays out Deleuze’s theory of cinema, found in his Cinema I and Cinema II… then uses Deleuze’s tool kit to extract the possibilities of meaning from post–WW II Japanese war films. Possibilities is key: Deamer says Deleuze’s theory is broad enough to allow for a variety of readings, even contradictory ones… Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

Read Robert Ducharme’s review ‘Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility’ at Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries


David Martin-Jones talks to David Deamer about deleuzecinema.com (2012)

A/V: Online Journal of Deleuze Studies (2012).
David Deamer interviewing David Martin-Jones.
at Manchester Metropolitan University Deleuze Workshop, 24-25 March 2012.

In 2012, David Matrin-Jones launched deleuzecinema.com, a collaborative online database website to bring together all research on Deleuze and Cinema. As co-editor of A/V, it was my pleasure to interview him for the journal about his new initiative.

Watch ‘David Martin-Jones talks to David Deamer about deleuzecinema.com’ (A/V#15 Autumn 2012) on the A/V Archive at YouTube


‘David Deamer: The Moment We Understand a Revolution – An interview with Michael Ely’ (2011)

Michael Ely interviews David Deamer
Volume 1, Issue 1, Autumn 2011

Interview given in the wake of David Deamer’s paper ‘After the flood: Deleuze and the Arab Spring’ at the Fourth International Deleuze Studies Conference – Creation, Crisis, Critique (2011) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-29 June 2011.

Read ‘David Deamer: The Moment We Understand a Revolution – An interview with Michael Ely’ with commentary at daviddeamer.com


‘David Martin-Jones – On Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity (Roundtable)’ (2007)

A/V: Online Journal of Deleuze Studies (2007)
David Deamer, Anna Powell, and Rob Lapsley talking to David Martin-Jones.
Special event for Actual Virtual Journal (2007).

To celebrate the release of Martin-Jones’ Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity (2006), the editors of A/V (Powell and Deamer) were joined by renowned film theorst Rob Lapsley to discuss his book and all things Deleuze and Cinema at a special roundtable event filmed especially for the journal.

Watch ‘David Martin-Jones – On Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity (Roundtable)’ (A/V#5 Spring 2007) on the A/V Archive at YouTube


Contributions to ‘Names and Terms’ in The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory (2006)

Contributions to ‘Names and Terms’:
> Arendt, Hannah
> Baudrillard, Jean
> Cyberspace
> Difference
> Freud, Sigmund
> Id
> Metalanguage
> Other
> Referent
> Saussure, Ferdinand de

See The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory (Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group: 1st Edition [2006]); and The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory (Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group: 2nd Edition [2013])