04749nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001600172072001500188072001500203072002300218072001800241100008700259245013400346250001800480264007900498300006400577336002600641337002600667338003600693347002400729505044700753520259401200650004303794650004003837650002803877650003303905650002803938650004203966710003404008773002604042776003604068776003604104776003604140856004604176912001404222912001404236999001704250978-3-031-74189-0DE-He21320251030114603.0cr nn 008mamaa241204s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317418909978-3-031-74189-07 a10.1007/978-3-031-74189-02doi 4aPN1993-1999 7aAP2bicssc 7a1D2bicssc 7aPER0040002bisacsh 7aATx1D2thema1 aComanducci, Carlo.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98855514aThe Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimosh[electronic resource] :bOperations of Life /cby Carlo Comanducci.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXV, 293 p. 46 illus., 41 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 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.  aThis 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. 0aMotion picture plays, European.966599 0aMotion picturesxAesthetics.973068 0aMotion pictures.95849614aEuropean Film and TV.96660124aFilm Philosophy.97307124aClose Readings in Film and TV.9729902 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303174188308iPrinted edition:z978303174190608iPrinted edition:z978303174191340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74189-0  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c65492d65492