04945nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-74189-0 DE-He213 20251030114603.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241204s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031741890 978-3-031-74189-0 10.1007/978-3-031-74189-0 doi PN1993-1999 AP bicssc 1D bicssc PER004000 bisacsh AT 1D thema Comanducci, Carlo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 88555 The Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos [electronic resource] : Operations of Life / by Carlo Comanducci. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 293 p. 46 illus., 41 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Constellations of Gestures -- Part I: Mimic Subjects -- Chapter 2: The Gesture of Suffering - Kinetta -- Chapter 3: The Irreparable Act – Dogtooth -- Chapter 4: The Office of Being - Alps -- Part II: Sacred Animals -- Chapter 5: The Rule and the Animal – The Lobster -- Chapter 6: The Economy of Justice – The Killing of a Sacred Deer -- Chapter 7: Unfinished Metamorphoses: From Infamous Gestures to Spectacular biopolitics. This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the “weird” roles, rules, and rituals that define and discipline lives in Lanthimos’s early works, from Kinetta to The Killing of a Sacred Deer. By exploring the resonance between Lanthimos’s cinema and Agamben’s understanding of gesture, this work wants to contribute to a theory of performative power under biopolitical and spectacular modalities of government, focussing in particular on Agamben’s ideas of operativity and inoperativity and on the construction and deconstruction of the white bourgeois, normative, and consensual “formality” of life. In turn, the role gestures play in Lanthimos’s critique of patriarchy and of neoliberal forms of vulnerabilisation is used to question Agamben’s unspoken affinities with contemporary radical feminism and queer theory. Carlo Comanducci is the author of Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-editor, with Alex Wilkinson, of Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story (2019). He writes on cinema, gesture, and film experience, critical and queer theory. He lives, mostly, in France, and teaches film history and film theory at Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland. This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the “weird” roles, rules, and rituals that define and discipline lives in Lanthimos’s early works, from Kinetta to The Killing of a Sacred Deer. By exploring the resonance between Lanthimos’s cinema and Agamben’s understanding of gesture, this work wants to contribute to a theory of performative power under biopolitical and spectacular modalities of government, focussing in particular on Agamben’s ideas of operativity and inoperativity and on the construction and deconstruction of the white bourgeois, normative, and consensual “formality” of life. In turn, the role gestures play in Lanthimos’s critique of patriarchy and of neoliberal forms of vulnerabilisation is used to question Agamben’s unspoken affinities with contemporary radical feminism and queer theory. Carlo Comanducci is the author of Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-editor, with Alex Wilkinson, of Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story (2019). He writes on cinema, gesture, and film experience, critical and queer theory. He lives, mostly, in France, and teaches film history and film theory at Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland. Motion picture plays, European. 66599 Motion pictures Aesthetics. 73068 Motion pictures. 58496 European Film and TV. 66601 Film Philosophy. 73071 Close Readings in Film and TV. 72990 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031741883 Printed edition: 9783031741906 Printed edition: 9783031741913 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74189-0 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65492 65492