LEADER 04758nam 22005655 450 001 9910913793703321 005 20251204102405.0 010 $a9783031741890 010 $a3031741897 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-74189-0 035 $a(CKB)36812798600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31812814 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31812814 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-74189-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936812798600041 100 $a20241204d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos $eOperations of Life /$fby Carlo Comanducci 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (299 pages) 311 08$a9783031741883 311 08$a3031741889 327 $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. 330 $aThis book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the ?weird? roles, rules, and rituals that de?ne 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 af?nities 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 ?lm experience, critical and queer theory. He lives, mostly, in France, and teaches ?lm history and ?lm 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 de?ne 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 af?nities 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 ?lm experience, critical and queer theory. He lives, mostly, in France, and teaches ?lm history and ?lm theory at Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland. 606 $aMotion picture plays, European 606 $aMotion pictures$xAesthetics 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aEuropean Film and TV 606 $aFilm Philosophy 606 $aClose Readings in Film and TV 615 0$aMotion picture plays, European. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xAesthetics. 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 14$aEuropean Film and TV. 615 24$aFilm Philosophy. 615 24$aClose Readings in Film and TV. 676 $a791.4094 700 $aComanducci$b Carlo$0855640 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910913793703321 996 $aThe Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos$94299208 997 $aUNINA