In the first book-length introduction to Deleuze's workon film from a feminist perspective, Teresa Rizzo ranges across Deleuze's bookson Cinema, his other writings, and feminist re-workings of his philosophy tore-think the film viewing experience. More than a commentary on Deleuze's bookson Cinema, Rizzo's work addresses a significant gap in film theory, building abridge between the spectatorship studies and apparatus theories of the 1970s,and new theorisations of the cinematic experience. Developing a concept of a‘cinematic assemblage', the book focuses on affectiveand intensive connections between film and viewer. Through acareful analysis of a range of film texts and genres that have been importantto feminist film scholarship, such as the Alienseries and the modern horror film, Rizzo puts Deleuze's key concepts towork in exciting new ways.