Presented as part of this special issue of Deleuze Studies is the complete text of Daniela Angelucci’s book
Deleuze e i concetti del cinema
. Translated by Sarin Marchetti,
Deleuze and the Concepts of Cinema
takes up Deleuze’s idea that the true objects of the theory of cinema are the concepts that cinema generates when understood as a practice of images. In this sense, philosophy alone is able, as Deleuze argued, to ‘constitute the concepts of cinema itself’.
is both a significant exploration of some of Deleuze’s key concepts, as well as an excellent introduction to Deleuze’s
Cinema
books, aiming to avoid, as Deleuze himself once claimed, a double reproach: namely, both excessive erudition –which makes the reading complicated and tedious– and exaggerated familiarity.