Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema

Seung-hoon Jeong is Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at California State University Long Beach. He is the author of Cinematic Interfaces: Film Theory after New Media, co-translator of the Korean edition of Jacques Derrida's Acts of Literature, and co-editor of The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema and Thomas Elsaesser's The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: World Cinema in a Global Frame Part I. Abjection and AgencyChapter 1. Multicultural Conflicts in Post-Political Double Ethics Chapter 2. The Narrative of Double Death with Abject AgencyChapter 3. Sovereign Agents' Biopolitical Abjection in the Spy Film Part II. Catastrophe and RevelationChapter 4. Law, Divine Violence, and the Sanctity of LifeChapter 5. From the Disaster Genre to the Cinema of CatastropheChapter 6. Human History in (Post-)Apocalyptic CinemaChapter 7. The Time Loop of Catastrophe in the Mind-Game Film Part III. Community and NetworkChapter 8. Narrative Formations of Community and NetworkChapter 9. Nation, Transnationality, and Global Community as Totalized Network Part IV. Gift and AtopiaChapter 10. Alternative Ethics through the Paradox of the GiftChapter 11. The Abject as Neighbor beyond Cultural MediationChapter 12. Atopian Networking and Positive Nihilism ReferencesIndex

Finally, a 'Global Cinema' book that has a point of view and a point to make— a powerful point that is driven home through ingenious analyses of films that have been harbingers of our recent dark past. This most intelligent, unblinking exploration of popular as well as art films radiates confidence in the cinema that walks with us, and, better, a belief in the world.