Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Instead of taking a world tour of national cinemas or displaying their transnational exchanges, Seung-hoon Jeong here sheds light on contemporary films' reflections of global phenomena related to conflicting biopolitical and ethical facets of globalization.
Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Instead of taking a world tour of national cinemas or displaying their transnational exchanges, Seung-hoon Jeong here sheds light on contemporary films' reflections of global phenomena related to conflicting biopolitical and ethical facets of globalization.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Seung-hoon Jeong is Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at California State University Long Beach. He is the author of Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory after New Media, co-translator of the Korean edition of Jacques Derrida's Acts of Literature, and co-editor of The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema and Thomas Elsaesser's The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: World Cinema in a Global Frame Part I. Abjection and Agency Chapter 1. Multicultural Conflicts in Post-Political Double Ethics Chapter 2. The Narrative of Double Death with Abject Agency Chapter 3. Sovereign Agents' Biopolitical Abjection in the Spy Film Part II. Catastrophe and Revelation Chapter 4. Law, Divine Violence, and the Sanctity of Life Chapter 5. From the Disaster Genre to the Cinema of Catastrophe Chapter 6. Human History in (Post-)Apocalyptic Cinema Chapter 7. The Time Loop of Catastrophe in the Mind-Game Film Part III. Community and Network Chapter 8. Narrative Formations of Community and Network Chapter 9. Nation, Transnationality, and Global Community as Totalized Network Part IV. Gift and Atopia Chapter 10. Alternative Ethics through the Paradox of the Gift Chapter 11. The Abject as Neighbor beyond Cultural Mediation Chapter 12. Atopian Networking and Positive Nihilism References Index
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: World Cinema in a Global Frame Part I. Abjection and Agency Chapter 1. Multicultural Conflicts in Post-Political Double Ethics Chapter 2. The Narrative of Double Death with Abject Agency Chapter 3. Sovereign Agents' Biopolitical Abjection in the Spy Film Part II. Catastrophe and Revelation Chapter 4. Law, Divine Violence, and the Sanctity of Life Chapter 5. From the Disaster Genre to the Cinema of Catastrophe Chapter 6. Human History in (Post-)Apocalyptic Cinema Chapter 7. The Time Loop of Catastrophe in the Mind-Game Film Part III. Community and Network Chapter 8. Narrative Formations of Community and Network Chapter 9. Nation, Transnationality, and Global Community as Totalized Network Part IV. Gift and Atopia Chapter 10. Alternative Ethics through the Paradox of the Gift Chapter 11. The Abject as Neighbor beyond Cultural Mediation Chapter 12. Atopian Networking and Positive Nihilism References Index
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