Henrik Gustafsson

Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image Henrik Gustafsson

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2014.; Includes bibliographical references and index.;'Cinema and Agamben' 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. Review Quotes: A superb attempt to think cinema as a matter of life and death, this state-of-the-art collection draws on the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben to cast new light on the movement of images and on the various kinds of cuts that are made in their flow. The human gesture as captured by cinema becomes here a site of potentiality: a breach of the aesthetic, a differentiation from within and hence an opening to the ethico-political. Review Quotes: A crucial, timely intervention in studies of film, philosophy and the work of Giorgio Agamben, this volume explores with insight and acuity the intersections of bioethics, politics, and technologies of the moving image. An essential tool for scholars of film and media theory and philosophy, it combines cutting-edge research with two previously untranslated essays by Agamben. Unpicking the mediality of media, with its fractured histories and disseminated ethical futures, "Cinema and Agamben" represents a brilliant new milestone in this emerging field. Biographical Note: Henrik Gustafsson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromso, Norway and a member of the Nomadikon Centre of Visual Culture. He is the author of "Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema, 1969-1974 "(2008) and the editor (together with Asbjorn Gronstad) of" Ethics and Images of Pain" (2012). Asbjorn Gronstad 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 "Ethics and Images of Pain "(co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson, 2012) and "Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema" (2011)."Table of Contents: List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Shape of Cinema to Come," Asbjorn Gronstad & Henrik Gustafsson"For an Ethics of the Cinema, " Giorgio Agamben"Cinema and History: On Jean-Luc Godard," Giorgio Agamben"Chapter 1. Silence, Gesture, Revelation: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Montage in Godard and Agamben," James S. Williams"Chapter 2. Passion, Agamben and the Gestures of Work, "Libby Saxton"Chapter 3. Gesture, Time, Movement: David Claerbout meets Giorgio Agamben on the Boulevard du Temple, "Janet Harbord"Chapter 4. Film-of-Life: Agamben's Profanation of the Image, "Benjamin Noys"Chapter 5. Biopolitics of Gesture: Cinema and the Neurological Body, "Pasi Valiaho"Chapter 6. Propositions for a Gestural Cinema: On 'Cine-Trances' and Jean Rouch's Ritual Documentaries, " Joo Mario Grilo"Chapter 7. Engaging Hand to Hand with the Moving Image: Serra, Viola and Grandrieux's Radical Gestures, "Silvia Casini"Chaoter 8. Counterfactual, Potential, Virtual: Toward a Philosophical Cinematics, "Garrett Stewart"Chapter 9. Montage and the Dark Margin of the Archive, "Trond Lundemo"Chapter 10. Remnants of Palestine, or, Archeology after Auschwitz, "Henrik Gustafsson"NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSINDEX" Contributor Bio:  Gustafsson, Henrik Henrik Gustafsson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Culture and Literature, University of Tromso, Norway, and a member of the Nomadikon Centre of Visual Culture. He is the author of "Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema, 1969-1974" (2008) and the editor (together with Asbjorn Gronstad) of "Ethics and Images of Pain "(2012). Contributor Bio:  Gronstad, Asbjorn Asbjorn Gronstad 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 "Ethics and Images of Pain" (co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson, 2012) and "Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema "(2011).