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The Techne of Giving : Cinema and the Generous Form of Life.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Commonalities SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823273270
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Techne of GivingDDC classification:
  • 791.430945
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.I88.C246 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
THE TECHNE OF GIVING -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: UNCOMMON GRIPS -- 1 FORMS OF LIFE IN A MILIEU OF BIOPOWER -- 2 FREEING THE APPARATUS -- 3 "DEAD WEIGHT": VISCONTI AND FORMS OF LIFE -- 4 PLAYFUL FALLS IN A MILIEU OF CONTAGION -- 5 THE TENDER LIVES OF VITTI/VITTORIA -- CONCLUSION: ATTENTION, NOT AUTOPSY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX.
Summary: In The Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving.
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THE TECHNE OF GIVING -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: UNCOMMON GRIPS -- 1 FORMS OF LIFE IN A MILIEU OF BIOPOWER -- 2 FREEING THE APPARATUS -- 3 "DEAD WEIGHT": VISCONTI AND FORMS OF LIFE -- 4 PLAYFUL FALLS IN A MILIEU OF CONTAGION -- 5 THE TENDER LIVES OF VITTI/VITTORIA -- CONCLUSION: ATTENTION, NOT AUTOPSY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX.

In The Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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