The Cinema of Raul Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies

This book is the first major academic engagement with the idiosyncratic Chilean-born filmmaker Raul Ruiz. It examines his work from the context of Allende's Chile to France and Europe from the 1970s, examining such themes as aesthetics and politics, simulation, multiplicity and theories of the image

Cinematic and Aesthetic Cartographies of Subjective Mutation

This article examines the use of cinema as a mapping of subjective mutation in the work of Deleuze, Gauttari and Berardi. Drawing on Deleuze's distinction between the reduction of the art-work to the symptom and the idea of art as symptomatology, the article focuses on Berardi's use of cinematic examples, posing the question in each case of to what extent they function as symptomatologies or mere symptoms of cultural and subjective mutations in examples ranging from Bergman's Persona to Van Sant's Elephant to finish on speculations about Fincher's The Social Network as a critical engagement with subjective mutation in the 21st Century.