#Movement-Image

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Deleuze v. Bordwell

Just a string of (possibly) incoherent thoughts. I finished reading Gilles Deleuze's Cinema I: The Movement-Image and Cinema II: The Time-Image, both for the second time. While I'm fascinated by Deleuze's theories, I'm not sure if they hold up under scrutiny.

My concerns came from reading over random blog posts on David Bordwell's site. Mainly, it's difficult to say whether a film is capturing a cultural zeitgeist because they're in development so many years before they actually hit screens. Furthermore, that it's more important to analyze what's on the screen VS. any sort of theoretical interpretation (psychoanalysis, semiology [both of which Deleuze agrees with forgoing, I think], post-modernism, etc.). The reason being, that if you go in to analyze something with a theory in mind, then you can stretch almost any meaning to fit that theory.

One of Bordwell's biggest studies, conducted alongside Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson, was studying if there was a coherent style to classical Hollywood cinema (1930 - 1960) and how that style communicated ideas to the audience, how it evolved, etc. For this study, they made a list of 100 randomly chosen films that were lesser known in status at the time (mid-80s) rather than a canonical masterpiece (this meant no Citizen Kane) to gauge what an average film was doing. This also helps cement what an innovative technique truly is and why certain films are considered landmarks.

Reading this along with Bordwell's On the History of Film Style, it becomes clear that Deleuze is repurposing (and sometimes misinterpreting) what has already been written about specific eras of film history, but in a less than coherent manner. Instead he's warping ideas about montage found in a nation's cinema – yes, Soviet montage was a thing, but not all Soviet directors were adhering to this style.

So then what does one make of Deleuze's work?

I have no idea. And I'm trying to grasp what this means. Perhaps it means taking some of Deleuze's concepts of what a Movement and Time image are, putting them under scrutiny under a vast array of films from his selected eras, and trying to come up with a more coherent dialogue to present his ideas.

But who am I to question whether or not one of the most famous philosophers was wrong.

[keymintt]

got an impulse to animate a little

[pseudonaivete]

Do we even have a chance not to suffer?

Sources:

Winterberry Family Medicine. (2022, February 22). Kids who want to be thin may gain more weight as adults. Retrieved from https://www.winterberrymedical.ca/2022/02/22/kids-who-want-to-be-thin-may-gain-more-weight-as-adults/

National Organization for Women (NOW). (n.d.). Get the Facts: Love Your Body Campaign. Retrieved from https://now.org/now-foundation/love-your-body/love-your-body-whats-it-all-about/get-the-facts/ 

The Times. (2025, April 28). What’s making our daughters so miserable? Retrieved from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daughters-miserable-tgb8cds06 

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH MY DAYS i cant believe i never posted this one here (originally posted to twitter, JAN20 2023) (hes stabbing his little bathtub bed. is that obvious? i hope its obvious) OLD ART at this point but i still like the way i did expression and movement. also WEEE THE NIGHTMARE ARC WAS SO FUNNNN WASNT IT FUNNN?? WEEEE!!

[mimi-0007]

Valerie L. Thomas (born February 8, 1943) is an American data scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.

[marxistswiftieism]

THE BEST PEOPLE IN LIFE ARE FREE!

[krumpkin]

Omega Speedmaster 😊

[friendship-test]

Friendship Test Full game release trailer!

Friendship Test is a game that follows a friendprogram, a robot built to be a perfect friend, as they travel a mysterious lab and encounters multiple Programs in need of help (and friendship). But perhaps being the best friend you can be isn’t truly what FriendProgram wants… Is that so wrong?

Friendship Test is a 10+ hours RPG Maker game that focuses on lovelessness, aplatonicism, aromanticism and many other aspec identities, as well as neurodivergency. I have been working on this project for almost a year and I’m close to the finish line.

You can play the demo on itch.io already! The full game will be released completely for free there as well.

Next week, in aro week, I will share multiple previews, concept art and overall commentary of the development of the game!

If you want to follow Friendship Test in other platforms:

Official youtube channel

Official bluesky account

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-Moonlight by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au

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-Happy Hustle by GoldenSoundLabs from Pixabay

[minkx3]

all of the MSM paint 3D models I made so far

[shaadowmilkcookie]

One of Shadow Milk’s many prop replicas of himself, left behind. Even though the eyes are forever staring straight into the distance… Oddly enough, you still feel like you’re being watched.

But surely, though, it won’t hurt to take it home and touch up the colours, right? :)

[campgender]

couldn't find this posted elsewhere so wanted to highlight this excellent article about Coretta Scott King's work & legacy, especially in loving Black queer people & working for queer liberation

image description: two screenshots from the Autostraddle article "How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK's Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights." the text reads:

In the mid-1980s, when President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even acknowledge the disease, Scott King – with the help of her assistant Lynn Cothren, an openly gay man — used the King Center to create a welcoming environment for the LGBT community, especially queer black people who were suffering in the middle of a generational genocide from HIV/AIDS. After the death of a close gay friend, she hosted a day of memorial at the Center and encouraged participants to sew stitches on a panel that would become part of the AIDS memorial quilt.

On March 31st 1998, at the 25th Anniversary luncheon for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, King spoke out against strands of conservatism in black communities that had kept some members reluctant to join the gay rights movement. She stated, “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice… but I hasten to remind that Martin Luther King, Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

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[autumn-may]

”what no im not being manipulated” <-guy who’s whole gimmick is being possessed by his sword (controls a bunch of guys whose gimmick is also being possessed by their swords)

[diana-andraste]

Figur im Raum (Figure in Space), Oskar Schlemmer, 1927. Photograph T. Lux Feininger, performer Werner Siedhoff

[omegalerc]

Please tell me you've seen this my God he looks so ejsheushek

https://x.com/sweetyoua/status/1870892887975813429?t=CJ2OQk1SsGukvNUvC71Oiw&s=19

OFCCCCCCC I HAVE!! one of the most incriminating lifechanging charles gifs ever.. now i encourage everybody to click the link and fully take in this masterpiece, but let’s focus on and appreciate these two specific frames.

[krumpkin]

This is a Breitling Premier Bentley Centenary Watch. I think it looks stunning 😊

[pocketramblr]

the mental image of Stain on a fire escape listening in on Tensei's conversation (his phone volume is all the way up because he's got to hear it through his helmet) and getting distracted from all the hot goss and other fake hero reveals does keep popping into my head btw. im gonna be proctoring exams today and thinking 'don't start giggling about it now' as i walk in aimless circles between desks.