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Lautaro Colautti, Una multiplicación, un brote del cuerpo. Cine, cuerpo y política en el pensamiento de Foucault, Journal de Ética & Cine, Volumen 14 | Nro 2 | Julio 2024

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Lautaro Colautti, Multiplication, An Outbreak of The Body. The Relationship Between Cinema and Politics in Foucault’s thought

Resumen
En el presente artículo se pretende realizar una lectura de los artículos y entrevistas que Michel Foucault brindó sobre el cine a partir de la década de los ’70. Básicamente, en sus comentarios sobre filmes de Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marguerite Duras, René Allio, Liliana Cavani, Werner Schroeter o Louis Malle, entre otros directores, el teórico expresa un modo de entender el cine a partir de la posibilidad de éste de mostrar los cuerpos de una manera novedosa y disruptiva. Buscaremos mostrar cómo esta concepción del cine se relaciona con el modo de entender la política a partir de las nociones de resistencia y de políticas de la libertad.

Palabras Clave: Foucault | cine | cuerpo | memoria | resistencia

Abstract
In this article, we aim to provide an analysis of the articles and interviews that Michel Foucault gave about cinema starting from the 1970s. Essentially, in his comments on films by directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marguerite Duras, René Allio, Liliana Cavani, Werner Schroeter, or Louis Malle, among others, the theorist expresses a way of understanding cinema based on its ability to depict bodies in a novel and disruptive manner. We will seek to demonstrate how this conception of cinema is related to the understanding of politics through the notions of resistance and politics of freedom.

Keywords: Foucault | cinema | body | memory | resistance

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