The Pedagogy of the Image: Deleuze and Godard - or how to produce a thought on cinema

Abstract

For Deleuze, cinema can be conceived as an experimental field of thought as well as an extraordinary form of thought. It is possible not only to think with the cinema, but also to show that cinema thinks unequivocally by means of its directors. Even more, it is possible to make one think through the cinema by a profusion of its images and signs. Said in other, now more problematic, terms: can we construct a pedagogy of cinematographic images? If we do not have a set answer to this question, we may point to what Jean-Luc Godard seems to propose as an answer, at least insofar as Gilles Deleuze lets us understand it. This is the theme of our paper. We seek to show the pedagogy of the Gordardian image based on the thought of the cinema as proposed by Gilles Deleuze.