| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 323 pages) |
| Contents |
‡a Introduction: World Cinema in a Global Frame -- The World as Global -- A Microhistory of Globalization with the Ethical Turn of Politics -- Subjectivity and Community in Crisis -- Mapping Frames of World Cinema -- A Matrix of Global Cinema -- Part I -- 1. Multicultural Conflicts in Postpolitical Double Ethics -- The Historic Falls and the Motif of 'Falling' -- Multiculturalism from Multiple Angles -- "Hate, a Last Sign of Life" -- Theory of Abjection Reloaded with Agency -- Paris and Banlieues in Post-La haine Mainstream French Cinema -- Auteurist Responses to the Ethical Potential and Limitations of Abjection -- 2. The Narrative of Double Death with Abject Agency -- Narratology and Ideology: Double Death and Abject Agency -- Two East Asian Transnational Networks in Korean Cinema -- The North-West Network: The 'Dog' and 'Thief' of Capital -- The South-East Network: Cognitive, Financial, and Emotional Capitalism -- 3. Sovereign Agents' Biopolitical Abjection in the Spy Film -- Biopolitical Abjection: Bare Life and Sovereign Power -- The Bond Series: From the Cold War to the Global Millennium -- Skyfall: The Self-Reaffirmation of the 'Dark Knight' -- Abject Agency from Bond to Bourne -- Part II -- 4. Law, Divine Violence, and the Sanctity of Life -- 5. From the Disaster Genre to the Cinema of Catastrophe -- 6. Human History in (Post)Apocalyptic Cinema -- 7. The Time Loop of Catastrophe in the Mind-Game Film -- Part III -- 8. Narrative Formations of Community and Network -- 9. Nation, Transnationality, and Global Community as Totalized Network -- Part IV -- 10. Alternative Ethics through the Paradox of the Gift -- 11. The Abject as Neighbor beyond Cultural Mediation -- 12. Atopian Networking and Positive Nihilism |
| Summary |
Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Instead of taking a world tour of national cinemas or displaying their transnational exchanges, Seung-hoon Jeong here sheds light on contemporary films' reflections of global phenomena related to conflicting biopolitical and ethical facets of globalization |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Globalization in motion pictures.
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Biopolitics -- Social aspects
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Ethics in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Films, cinema.
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Performing Arts.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0190093811 |
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9780190093808 |
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0190093803 |
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9780190093815 |
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9780190093822 |
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019009382X |
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