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Deleuzian spectatorship.

Published in the 50th anniversary issue of Screen, ‘Deleuzian Spectatorship’ brings together several themes that have been integral to my own work for the last decade, especially on matters of spectatorship and on the notions of absorption and theatricality in the cinema. In bringing these strands of thinking together, along with advancing a provocative thesis on the nature of cinema spectatorship from a Deleuzian perspective, the article makes an original contribution to debates in film theory.

‘Deleuzian Spectatorship’ builds on a body of work exploring Deleuze and Cinema in the past five years. I coedited (with Phillip Roberts, Cardiff University) in 2011 a special issue of the journal Deleuze Studies (Vol. 5, no. 2) on ‘Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture’ to which I also contributed an article on ‘A Deleuzian Imaginary: The Films of Jean Renoir’ (pp. 241-60). I have also published a book called Cinema After Deleuze (Continuum 2012), which provides a sophisticated introduction to Deleuze’s writings on cinema. I also hosted a symposium ‘Dialogues on Deleuze and Cinema’ in July 2012 at Lancaster University in which several prominent scholars from the UK and the US participated in a series of discussions and reflections on the work of Deleuze in relation to film studies.