The Desiring-Image Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

"The Desiring-Image is high concept: it adds a third term to 'movement-image' and 'time-image, ' extending Deleuze's inquiry into present-day world cinema and making his pair of cinema books a trilogy. It is also high theory. Yet Davis's book is also concrete and accessible, explaining and synthesizing Deleuzian terminology and illuminating key works of New Queer Cinema in ways that renew their promise for critical inquiry, pedagogy, and film culture. The clarity of Davis's prose does not diminish the text's rhetorical performance, which is sustained and often dazzling."--Patricia White, author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability"This is important and needed work. Davis' deeply original move is to fold Deleuze's film concepts into the Anti-Oedipus and to remap them, and in so doing to produce a distinctly original perspective for assessing and revaluing the films that inspire him. The Desiring-Image has renewed and extended Deleuze's concepts in ways that will encourage the formation of new perspectives and forms of analysis for cinema, queer or otherwise."--D.N. Rodowick, author of The Virtual Life of Film"The Desiring-Image brings an exciting new perspective on film and desire. Impressive, at times startling in its groundbreaking originality, The Desiring-Image will stimulate anyone interested in how cinema produces the desire which shapes the worlds we inhabit."--David Martin-Jones, author of Deleuze and World Cinemas"At its best, Nick Davis' The Desiring-Image thinks through Deleuze to explode our conception of the queer cinema canon, to challenge our understanding of homoeroticism, and to consider the ways queer cinema imagined itself in retrospect. This is an exhaustive yet lovingly written perverse intervention into film theory."--Lucas Hilderbrand, author of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright"Seductive in its intellect and humbling in its prose, The Desiring-Image mark