Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image

by Henrik Gustafsson

Book Overview

Cinema 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623564360
• ISBN13: 9781623564360
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"