In the conclusion of his two volumes on cinema, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze describes cinema as “a new practice of images and signs, whose theory philosophy must produce as conceptual practice” (Cinema 2 280). The course introduces Deleuze’s innovative, creative approach to cinema, and elaborates on his unique theses and concepts that are as much cinematic as they are philosophical. Deleuze argues that cinema is a mode of thinking in itself, which is actualized in what he calls “movement-images” and “time-images.” Throughout the course, we will read selected chapters from his cinema books, and discuss them in relation to different films, such as Antonioni’s Red Desert, Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, and Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad. The second half of the course will discuss applications and continuations of Deleuze’s film-philosophy in contemporary Deleuzian film studies.