If film-philosophy often discovers fresh and forgotten films, filmmakers, philosophers, and theories, it is just as important that it re-explores what has been written about many times before. And of course, these things are not mutually exclusive, as Barry Nevin shows with Cracking Gilles Deleuze's Crystal: Narrative Space-time in the Films of Jean Renoir. There are dozens of books on Renoir, and the filmmaker has been lauded by cineastes as one of the greatest in cinema history. Nonetheless, Nevin enters the critical fray with vigour and purpose, proving that there is still much to be said of and through the director's films. To this end, one of the key aspects of Nevin's project is not only to “reassess” Renoir's “canonised landmarks” but also to “stimulate further analysis of his under-discussed works” (p. 182).

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巴里·内文 (Barry Nevin) (2018) 破解吉尔·德勒兹的水晶：让·雷诺阿电影中的叙事时空

如果电影哲学经常发现新鲜的和被遗忘的电影、电影制作人、哲学家和理论，那么重新探索以前多次写过的东西也同样重要。当然，这些东西并不相互排斥，正如巴里·内文（Barry Nevin）在让·雷诺阿（Jean Renoir）电影中的《破解吉尔·德勒兹的水晶：叙事时空》中所展示的那样. 有几十本关于雷诺阿的书，这位电影制作人被电影制片人誉为电影史上最伟大的电影人之一。尽管如此，内文还是充满活力和目的性地进入了评论界，证明了导演的电影还有很多话要说。为此，内文项目的关键方面之一不仅是“重新评估”雷诺阿的“经典地标”，而且是“激发对他未被充分讨论的作品的进一步分析”（第 182 页）。