{"product_id":"cinema-and-agamben-paperback","title":"Cinema and Agamben - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenrik Gustafsson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAsbjorn Gronstad\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinema and Agamben\u003c\/i\u003e 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 resourceful analyses of the work of artists such as David Claerbout, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Grandrieux, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and others, the authors put to use a range of key concepts from Agamben's rich body of work, like biopolitics, de-creation, gesture, potentiality and profanation. Sustaining the eminently interdisciplinary scope of Agamben's writing, the essays all bespeak the importance of Agamben's thought for forging new beginnings in film theory and for remedying the elegiac proclamations of the death of cinema so characteristic of the current moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenrik Gustafsson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø, Norway and a member of the Nomadikon Centre of Visual Culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOut of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema, 1969-1974 \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and the editor (together with Asbjørn Grønstad) of\u003ci\u003e Ethics and Images of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAsbjørn Grønstad is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, where he is also the director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eEthics and Images of Pain \u003c\/i\u003e(co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eScreening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734970339391,"sku":"9781501308598","price":112.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b173e76a6811078bde8026c7cb35310d.webp?v=1765141748","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/cinema-and-agamben-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}