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Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

This article intends to theoretically think with Michael Winterbotton’s movies 'In this world' (2002), 'Code 46' (2003) and 'The road to Guantanamo' (2006). These movies are interpreted as ‘texts’ which interrogate main dilemmas of contemporary and near future politics, such as: illegal immigration, illegal detention and biopolitical control. In order to do so, Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as ‘biopolitics’ and ‘state of exception’ constitute main theoretical references since they illuminate the chocking powerfulness of Winterbotton’s images. The common feature of both Winterbotton’s movies and Agamben's concept of biopolitics relates to the unstable frontier that politically and economically separates bare life …