New Poetics of the Film Body
Docility, Molecular Fundamentalism and Twenty First Century Destiny
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12948245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Flynn (0000-0003-2141-5881, University of the Arts London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American, British and Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1841-1487 • E-ISSN: 1841-964X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.1515/abcsj-2015-0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2400670317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Twenty first century film evokes a new topology of the body. Science and technology are the new century’s ‘sovereign power’ which enforces biopolitics through bodies which, by virtue of being seen at their most fundamental level, have become docile surfaces. The film body is at once manipulated and coerced into an ethos of optimization; a thoroughly scientific and ‘molecular’ optimization which proffers ‘normalization’ and intimately regulated bodies. In the film bodies of this millennium, bodily intervention results in surveillance becoming internalized. Now the body is both a means and an end of social control. This essay applies the philosophies Michel Foucault and Nikolas Rose to twenty first century Hollywood film, elucidating a new tropos, a new film body/body of film
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biopower · Destiny (ISS module · Epistemology · Ethos · Hollywood · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Virtue · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |