The Camera's Face. Bergman. Summer with Monika

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The Camera's Face

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema I

Chapter 5

The Perception Image

Section 2

Griffith and Eisenstein

It is transparent, translucent or white space that has just been defined. Such a space retains the power to reflect light, but it also gains another power which is that of refracting, by diverting the rays which cross it. The face which remains in this space thus reflects a part of the light, but refracts another part of it. From being reflexive, it becomes intensive. Here there is something unique in the history of the close-up. The classical close-up ensures a partial reflection in so far as the face looks in a direction different from that of the camera, and thus forces the spectator to rebound on the surface of the screen. We are also familiar with very fine ‘camera-looks’, as in Bergman’s Summer with Monika, which establish a total reflection and give the close-up a distance which is proper to it. (Cinema 1, 97a)

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson & Barbara Habberjam, London: Continuum, 1986

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For Whom the Bell Shoots, Hawks, El Dorado, Empty Church Function

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For Whom the Bell Shoots

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema I

Chapter 10:

The Action-Image

The Small Form

Section 2a:

The Western in Hawks: functionalism

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Howard Hawks

El Dorado

First of all, the locations lose the organic life which encompassed them, traversed them and situated them in a set: the purely functional prison in Rio Bravo does not even need to show us its prisoner; the church in El Dorado no longer bears witness to anything but an abandoned function; the town of Rio Lobo is reduced to 'a diagram, now only showing functions, a bloodless town condemned by the weight of a past'. (169d, emphasis mine)

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson & Barbara Habberjam, London: Continuum, 1986.

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