Richard Rushton Bücher

Focusing on nine influential European directors from the 1950s onward, this work delves into their cinematic portrayals of romantic love and marriage. It explores how these filmmakers reflect societal attitudes towards relationships, offering insights into the evolution of love in modern European cinema. Through a critical analysis of their films, the book highlights the unique narratives and thematic depth surrounding love and commitment in various cultural contexts.

Gilles Deleuze represents the most widely referenced theorist of cinema today. And yet, even the most rudimentary pillars of his thought remain mysterious to most students (and even many scholars) of film studies. From one of the foremost theorists following Deleuze in the world today, Deleuze and Lola Montès offers a detailed explication of Gilles Deleuze's writings on film – from his books Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1983) and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1985). Building on this foundation, Rushton provides an interpretation of Max Ophuls's classic film Lola Montès as an example of how Deleuzian film theory can function in the practice of film interpretation.