BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY IN NAZI CINEMA

From the logocentric culture to the visual culture, the cinema has gained its emancipation as most powerful and important of arts, especially due to the totalitarian strategies that used it toward an aestheticization of politics to control the masses. The following is an analysis of the effects of t...

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Main Author: Raissa Baroni
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Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2018-06-01
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Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/2659
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description From the logocentric culture to the visual culture, the cinema has gained its emancipation as most powerful and important of arts, especially due to the totalitarian strategies that used it toward an aestheticization of politics to control the masses. The following is an analysis of the effects of the totalitarian Nazi power on the body, conducted by means of the German film Triumph of the will by Leni Riefenstahl. On the one hand, through the concept of microphysics of power and the implications of the techniques of the body will be explained how the bio-power works and circulates; on the other hand, this study shows how the viewing of a film can activate the mirror-neurons in our brain and implicate the mimetic desire and the social mimetism.
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spelling doaj.art-7c1a2074af4045149ca23eaf87fb73e12022-12-21T18:39:21ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoRiCognizioni2384-89872018-06-015910.13135/2384-8987/2659BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY IN NAZI CINEMARaissa Baroni0Università degli Studi di TorinoFrom the logocentric culture to the visual culture, the cinema has gained its emancipation as most powerful and important of arts, especially due to the totalitarian strategies that used it toward an aestheticization of politics to control the masses. The following is an analysis of the effects of the totalitarian Nazi power on the body, conducted by means of the German film Triumph of the will by Leni Riefenstahl. On the one hand, through the concept of microphysics of power and the implications of the techniques of the body will be explained how the bio-power works and circulates; on the other hand, this study shows how the viewing of a film can activate the mirror-neurons in our brain and implicate the mimetic desire and the social mimetism.https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/2659Visual cultureaestheticization of politicsmicrophysics of powertechniques of the bodyNazi cinema
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Visual culture
aestheticization of politics
microphysics of power
techniques of the body
Nazi cinema
title BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY IN NAZI CINEMA
title_full BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY IN NAZI CINEMA
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title_short BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY IN NAZI CINEMA
title_sort biopolitics and the body in nazi cinema
topic Visual culture
aestheticization of politics
microphysics of power
techniques of the body
Nazi cinema
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