Cinema and Agamben - Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image

Cinema and Agamben brings together a group of established scholars of film and visual culture to explore the nexus between the moving image and the influential work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Including two original texts by Agamben himself, published here for the first time in English translation, these essays facilitate a unique multidisciplinary conversation that fundamentally rethinks the theory and praxis of cinema. In their resourceful analyses of the work of artists such as David Claerbout, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Grandrieux, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and others, the authors put to use a range of key concepts from Agamben''s rich body of work, like biopolitics, de-creation, gesture, potentiality and profanation. Sustaining the eminently interdisciplinary scope of Agamben''s writing, the essays all bespeak the importance of Agamben''s thought for forging new beginnings in film theory and for remedying the elegiac proclamations of the death of cinema so characteristic of the current moment.>

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• Authors: Asbjorn Gronstad, Henrik Gustafsson, Henrik Gronstad Gustafsson
• Assisted by: Asbjorn Gronstad (Editor), Gronstad Asbjorn (Editor), Henrik Gustafsson (Editor), Gustafsson Henrik (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2015
• EAN: 9781501308598
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-0859-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Ästhetik, Radio, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Fernsehen, TV, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism