Research Catalog

Title

Biopolitical ethics in global cinema / Seung-hoon Jeong.

Author

Jeong, Seung-hoon

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xx, 323 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"This book is a critical attempt to approach world cinema in a new global frame that updates the national frame of territorial cinemas and the transnational frame of their interplay. The global frame implies the reintegration of border-crossing forces onto the postpolitical plane of troubled globalization with two ethical facets: the soft ethical inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their hard ethical symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. Reflecting both, global cinema is formulated as staging crucial challenges that today's globalism and its antinomies bring to the notions of subjectivity and community. Many films indeed depict the antagonism between the inclusive global system and its excluded remnants, allegorizing the impossible political change in various modes of catastrophe and nihilism. A global community often takes on a totalized network of sovereign violence and (counter)terror stuck in the impasse of utopian imagination. Yet some films suggest alternative ethics irreducible to collective politics when abject figures, deprived of social subjectivity and rights, become contingent agents of existential 'gift-giving' by fostering commonality without community, solidarity without unity. The psychoanalytic notion of abjection is redefined here as both the biopolitical mode of bare life and its potential for the ethical agency that opens atopian, if not utopian, networking on the edge of the global regime beyond the problematic 'soft/hard' ethics of tolerance/violence or pity/hate. This precarious yet precious abject agency is explored through a vast net of globally circulating contemporary films and a core cluster of political, ethical, and psychoanalytic philosophies"--

Subject

• Motion pictures > Social aspects
• Globalization in motion pictures
• Biopolitics > Social aspects
• Ethics in motion pictures
• Motion pictures
• Biopolitics
• Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-316) and index.

Call Number

MFL 23-4287

ISBN

• 0190093781
• 9780190093785
• 019009379X
• 9780190093792

OCLC

1373833708

Author

Jeong, Seung-hoon, author.

Title

Biopolitical ethics in global cinema / Seung-hoon Jeong.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-316) and index.

Research Call Number

MFL 23-4287