two years pass...
Hey yall,
I'm working on a(n undergraduate) paper where I'm attempting to locate
film at the intersection of Foucault's double-bind of biopower:
normalization and individualization, or regulation and discipline.
Foucault only cites two such intersections: sexuality and racism. I'm
trying first to use recent research into mirror neurons and Deleuze's
notion that film is 'prelinguistic' as opposed to any formulations of a
semiology or language of film. In doing so, I hope to account for film's
direct interaction with the spectator's body (3 miscarriages at the sight
of Bunuel's sliced eye, 2 deaths related to the gore of Passion of the
Christ, the shrieking responses to the Great Train Robbery, and all the
less dramatic interactions such as fright, sadness, etc.) I'm looking at
how film creates filmic subjects and filmic bodies and how they might
relate respectively to normalization and discipline. I have 3 main ways a
body is generally created in film: violence, sexuality, otherness as they
might be seen in light of Foucault's study of the spectacle of the
scaffold in Discipline and Punish. If there's anyone who can help me make
better sense of this mess above, be it positively or negatively, or know
of any references that might be of help I'd rightly appreciate it.
Thanks, *** *****
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)