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A Spatial Plane of Immanence: American Cinema in Late Capitalism

Vouri-Richard, Derek S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1443712775

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film (Fine Arts).
This thesis articulates the distinct ways in which American cinema in late capitalism figures a plane of immanence in which space governs movement and dominates time. In doing so, my thesis implies a cinematic regime that differs from Gilles Deleuze’s two cinematic regimes of the movement-image and time-image. However, this body of work strives to be more than a simple extrapolation off of Deleuze’s well-known cinematic periods. Throughout this project I consciously venture away from the Deleuzian philosophy by diving into the distinct modes of production that constitute late capitalism, and delineating the ways in which this contemporary phase of globalization restructures uneven development into sectoral uneven development, a phenomenon that changes the ways in which bodies experience space and time on the plane of immanence. Thus my methodology throughout this thesis evolves and opens up a gap between Deleuze’s vitalism and historical materialism. In the final chapter I attempt to close this gap by inserting Henri Lefebvre’s spatial trialectic onto the plane of immanence. The contradictions between time and space that Lefebvre exposes with his spatial trialectic are inherent to the spatial plane of immanence of American cinema in late capitalism.
Louis-Georges Schwartz (Committee Chair)
Ofer Eliaz (Committee Member)
Marina Peterson (Committee Member)
110 p.
Film Studies
Plane of immanence; late capitalism; American cinema; spatial trialectic; sectoral uneven development; affect; space; Gilles Deleuze; Henri Lefebvre

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  • Vouri-Richard, D. S. (2015). A Spatial Plane of Immanence: American Cinema in Late Capitalism [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1443712775

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vouri-Richard, Derek. A Spatial Plane of Immanence: American Cinema in Late Capitalism. 2015. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1443712775.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vouri-Richard, Derek. "A Spatial Plane of Immanence: American Cinema in Late Capitalism." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1443712775

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