Benjamin and Deleuze: Approaches to a Critical History in Film Images

Abstract

The article combines Walter Benjamin's concept of the dialectical image and Gilles Deleuze's concept of the time-image to develop an approach to using film as an instrument in historical research.

Keywords

• history
• film
• research method
• dialectics
• walter benjamin
• gilles deleuze
• alexander kluge
• shoah
• nuit et brouillard
• die patriotin