Dancing Shadows. George Stevens. Swing Time

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Dancing Shadows

George Stevens

Swing Time

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

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the center of gravity passes outside his slight body, floats beyond him, and defies verticality, rolls crosswise, and follows a line which is now only that of his silhouette, his shadow or his shadows, to the extent that it is his shadows which dance with him (Stevens's Swingtime) [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989:59a]

le centre de gravité passe hors de son corps mince, flotte hors de lui, défie la verticalité, tangue, parcourt une ligne qui n'est plus que celle de sa silhouette, de son ombre ou de ses ombres, si bien que ce sont ses ombres qui dansent avec lui (« Swing time » de Stevens) [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985:83cd]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris:Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

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