Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema

Luca Barattoni is Associate Professor of World Cinema at Clemson University and the author of Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema 1. Thinking Through Biopolitics and Film: An Overview 2. "The Governmentalization of Social Life": Asghar Farhadi and Iranian Cinema 3. Russia and the Use and Abuse of Genealogical Authority 4. From Biopolitics to Ecopolitics: The (Un)intended Consequences of Biopower in the Cinema of Wang Xiaoshuai 5. Allegories of Extraction: Radu Jude and the New Romanian Cinema Conclusion: New Directions in World Cinema— The Animist Turn Notes Bibliography Index

"Barattoni's The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema describes with laser-sharp precision the current state of play in both film philosophy and film studies. Its original theoretical framework combines Foucault's 'bio power' and Agamben's 'biopolitics' with recent nonhuman and animistic approaches to substantiate the analysis of films picked from post-socialist and post-revolutionary regions, where political oppression results in harm to and often destruction of the human body and life. A highly recommended read for both scholars and lovers of world cinema." — Lúcia Nagib, author of Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema