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The biopolitical turn in World cinema : visual landscapes of social power / Luca Barattoni.

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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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