Cinema and Agamben - Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (Hardcover, New)

Cinema and Agamben is the first collection of original essays that brings together a group of established and emerging scholars of film and visual culture for an innovative study of contemporary film theory and philosophy. Refracting current conceptions of the moving image through the influential work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, 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, Marcel Duchamp, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Rouch, Richard Serra, Susanne Winterling and others, the authors put to use a number of the key concepts from Agamben's rich body of work: biopolitics, de-creation, dispositif, gesture, the messianic, and profanation, to name a few. 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.

General

Imprint:	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Asbjorn Gronstad • Henrik Gustafsson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-62356-436-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-62356-436-0
Barcode:	9781623564360

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