Cinema and Agamben by Henrik Gustafsson, Asbjorn Gronstad - 9781501308598

Cinema and AgambenEthics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image\nAuthor(s): Henrik Gustafsson, Asbjorn Gronstad\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501308598, 978-1501308598\nSynopsis\nCinema 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 profana.