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The biopolitical turn in World cinema : visual landscapes of social power / Luca Barattoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barattoni, Luca, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
- SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Biopolitics--Social aspects.
- Biopolitics.
- Ethics in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Explores biopolitical currents in world cinema, paying particular attention to postsocialist and postrevolutionary filmmakers from Iran, Russia, China, and Romania.The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema explores how cinematic form and content understand and represent relationships of power between the state and life itself.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
- Biopolitics: Key Issues
- Cinema, Between Disciplinary Instrument and Affirmatively Biopolitical Medium
- (Whose) World Cinema?
- Structure
- 1 Thinking Through Biopolitics and Film An Overview
- 2 "The Governmentalization of Social Life" Asghar Farhadi and Iranian Cinema
- Post-Revolutionary Cinema in Focus
- Crimson Gold
- National Security as Sovereign: Manuscripts Don't Burn
- From Geopolitics to Biopolitics: The Cinema of Asghar Farhadi
- Fireworks Wednesday
- About Elly
- 3 Russia and the Use and Abuse of Genealogical Authority
- Sergei Loznitsa's Cinema of the Crowd
- Hobbes, Serebrennikov, Zvyagintsev and the Russian Leviathan
- The Student
- Leviathan
- 4 From Biopolitics to Ecopolitics The (Un)intended Consequences of Biopower in the Cinema of Wang Xiaoshuai
- Sixth Generation Filmmakers
- The Work of Art and the Art of Government
- Reproducing China in Wang's Later Work
- "We're Rich Now. No Need to Be Afraid": Natality, Urban Development, and Landscape in So Long, My Son
- "This Place Is So Strange No One Wants to Rent It": Family, Private Property, and the State in In Love We Trust
- 5 Allegories of Extraction Radu Jude and the New Romanian Cinema
- Conclusion: New Directions in World Cinema-The Animist Turn
- Coloniality, Negative Animism, and Unmotivated Life
- Permanence of Italy, or the Sovereign Panhandler
- Dissolving Borders: Biopower from Below
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9798855805857
- 9798855807141
- OCLC:
- 1573149670
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