Biopolitical Ethics In Global Cinema Av Seung-hoon (assistant Professor Of Film And Electronic Arts Assistant Professor Of Film And Electronic Arts

Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Whereas world cinema often refers to non-American films deemed artistic or peripheral, Seung-hoon Jong examines its mapping frames: the territorial ''national frame,'' the deterritorializing ''transnational frame,'' and the ''global frame.'' If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, his global frame highlightstwo conflicting ethical facets of globalization: the ''soft-ethical'' inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their ''hard-ethical'' symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. Reflecting both and suggesting their alternatives, global cinema draws attention to new changes insubjectivity and community that Jeong investigates in terms of biopolitical ''abjection'' and ethical ''agency.''In this frame, the book explores a vast net of post-1990 films circulating in both the mainstream market and the fe

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