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Transforming Bodies, Transforming Genres: A Biocapitalistic Representation of Aging in Old (2021)

Yıl 2024, Sayı: 18
https://doi.org/10.31122/sinefilozofi.1380505

Öz

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old (2021) narrates the story of a group of people who realize that the isolated beach they are taken to by the holiday resort they are staying at causes alarmingly rapid aging. The film is based on the graphic novel, Sandcastle (2010) by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. Although Sandcastle offers no explanation but several hypotheses for the accelerated aging, Old introduces a clinical trial of a pharmaceutical company, testing medicines for chronic illnesses and clarifies that the peculiarity of the beach is used to test medicines within hours instead of a lifetime. The characters, hence, are test subjects chosen because of their illnesses. This study displays how Old, through hyper-accelerated aging, transforms what is conventionally categorised as supernatural horror into body horror scrutinising the theme of aging in terms of the generic qualities of body horror. This paper is an explicit attempt to inspect, in terms of Foucauldian biopolitics, how human health is converted into commodified data; together with the relationship between capitalism and biotechnology/ medicine.

Kaynakça

  • Agamben, G. (1998). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford University Press.
  • Austin, G. (2012). Biological dystopias: The body in contemporary French horror cinema. L'Esprit Créateur, 52(2), (Summer), 99-113. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26378787.
  • Badley, L. (1995). Film, horror, and the body fantastic. Greenwood Press.
  • Badley, L. (1996). Writing horror and the body: the fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice. Greenwood Press.
  • Barry, E. (2015). The ageing body. In David Hillman & Ulrika Maude (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to body in literature (pp. 132-148). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brophy, P. (1986). Horrality– the textuality of contemporary horror films. Screen, 27(1), 2-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.1.2.
  • Carroll, N. (1987). The nature of horror. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 46(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.2307/431308.
  • Clasen, M. (2012). Monsters evolve: A biocultural approach to horror stories. Review of General Psychology, 16(2), 222–229. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027918.
  • Collins, M. J. (1993). The body of the work of the body: Physio-textuality in contemporary horror. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 5, 3(19), 28-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308161.
  • Foucault, M. (1978). The history of sexuality, vol. I: The will to knowledge. Pantheon Books.
  • Foucault, M. (2003). The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception. Taylor & Francis.
  • Foucault, M. (2004). The crisis of medicine or antimedicine?. Foucault Studies, 1, 5-19. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i1.562.
  • Foucault, M. (2006). Psychiatric power: lectures at College de France, 1973-74. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Illich, Ivan. (1975). Medical nemesis: The expropriation of health. Pantheon Books.
  • Katz, S. (1996). Disciplining old age: The formation of gerontological knowledge. The University Press of Virginia.
  • Kristeva, Julia. (1984). Powers of horror: An essay on abjection. Columbia University Press.
  • Levy, P-O. (2013). Sandcastle. (F. Peeters, Illus.). (N. Mahony, Trans.) London: SelfMadeHero.
  • Mitchell, D. T. & Snyder, S. L. (2015). The biopolitics of disability: neoliberalism, ablenationalism, and peripheral embodiment. University of Michigan Press.
  • Powell, J., & Biggs, S. (2000). Managing old age: The disciplinary web of power, surveillance and normalization. Journal of Aging and Identity, 5(1), 3-13, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009541314124.
  • Shyamalan, M. N. (Director). (2021). Old [Motion Picture]. USA: Universal Pictures.
  • Rajan, K. S. (2006). Biocapital: The constitution of postgenomic life. Duke University Press.
  • Rose, N. (2007). The politics of life itself: Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Shildrick, M. (1997). Leaky bodies and boundaries: Feminism, postmodernism and (bio)ethics. Routledge.
  • Schmitt, C. (2005). Political theology. (G. Schwab, Trans.). The University of Chicago Press.

Değişen Bedenler, Değişen Türler: Zamanda Tutsak (2021) Filminde Yaşlanmanın Biyokapitalist Temsili

Yıl 2024, Sayı: 18
https://doi.org/10.31122/sinefilozofi.1380505

Öz

Pierre Oscar Levy’nin Kumdan Kale (2010) adlı çizgi romanından uyarlanan Shyamalan’ın Zamanda Tutsak (2021) filmi, kaldıkları lüks otel tarafından götürüldükleri izole plajın kendilerini çok hızlı bir biçimde yaşlandırdığını fark eden bir grup insanı anlatır. Çizgi roman gibi film de bu gizemli yaşlanmanın sebebini açıkça dile getirmese de filmin sonlarına doğru yönetmen, kronik hastalıklar için ilaç üreten Warren & Warren isimli bir ilaç şirketinin deney laboratuvarını ve mezkûr şirketin, plajın bu doğaüstü özelliğini kullanarak ilaçlarını insanlar üzerinde çok kısa bir zamanda deneyebildikleri gösterir. Böylelikle karakterlerin, kendi hastalıklarına göre takip edilip özellikle seçilmiş olan denekler olduğu anlaşılır. Bu çalışma, genel olarak psikolojik korku-gerilim türünde sınıflandırılan Zamanda Tutsak filminin, hızlandırılmış yaşlanma fenomeni kullanılarak nasıl bedensel korku türüne evrildiğini, bu türün jenerik özellikleri bağlamında incelemektedir. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda insan yaşamı ve sağlığının metalaştırılabilir bilgiye dönüşümü ile bu oluşumun Zamanda Tutsak (2021) filminde nasıl resmedildiğini, kapitalizm ve biyoteknoloji arasındaki ilişki, biyokapital ve Foucaultcu biyopolitika bağlamında incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Kaynakça

  • Agamben, G. (1998). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. Stanford University Press.
  • Austin, G. (2012). Biological dystopias: The body in contemporary French horror cinema. L'Esprit Créateur, 52(2), (Summer), 99-113. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26378787.
  • Badley, L. (1995). Film, horror, and the body fantastic. Greenwood Press.
  • Badley, L. (1996). Writing horror and the body: the fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice. Greenwood Press.
  • Barry, E. (2015). The ageing body. In David Hillman & Ulrika Maude (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to body in literature (pp. 132-148). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brophy, P. (1986). Horrality– the textuality of contemporary horror films. Screen, 27(1), 2-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.1.2.
  • Carroll, N. (1987). The nature of horror. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 46(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.2307/431308.
  • Clasen, M. (2012). Monsters evolve: A biocultural approach to horror stories. Review of General Psychology, 16(2), 222–229. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027918.
  • Collins, M. J. (1993). The body of the work of the body: Physio-textuality in contemporary horror. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 5, 3(19), 28-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308161.
  • Foucault, M. (1978). The history of sexuality, vol. I: The will to knowledge. Pantheon Books.
  • Foucault, M. (2003). The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical perception. Taylor & Francis.
  • Foucault, M. (2004). The crisis of medicine or antimedicine?. Foucault Studies, 1, 5-19. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i1.562.
  • Foucault, M. (2006). Psychiatric power: lectures at College de France, 1973-74. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Illich, Ivan. (1975). Medical nemesis: The expropriation of health. Pantheon Books.
  • Katz, S. (1996). Disciplining old age: The formation of gerontological knowledge. The University Press of Virginia.
  • Kristeva, Julia. (1984). Powers of horror: An essay on abjection. Columbia University Press.
  • Levy, P-O. (2013). Sandcastle. (F. Peeters, Illus.). (N. Mahony, Trans.) London: SelfMadeHero.
  • Mitchell, D. T. & Snyder, S. L. (2015). The biopolitics of disability: neoliberalism, ablenationalism, and peripheral embodiment. University of Michigan Press.
  • Powell, J., & Biggs, S. (2000). Managing old age: The disciplinary web of power, surveillance and normalization. Journal of Aging and Identity, 5(1), 3-13, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009541314124.
  • Shyamalan, M. N. (Director). (2021). Old [Motion Picture]. USA: Universal Pictures.
  • Rajan, K. S. (2006). Biocapital: The constitution of postgenomic life. Duke University Press.
  • Rose, N. (2007). The politics of life itself: Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Shildrick, M. (1997). Leaky bodies and boundaries: Feminism, postmodernism and (bio)ethics. Routledge.
  • Schmitt, C. (2005). Political theology. (G. Schwab, Trans.). The University of Chicago Press.
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular Film Eleştirisi
Bölüm Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar

Fatma Karaaslan Özgü 0000-0001-9185-0622

Erken Görünüm Tarihi 18 Ağustos 2024
Yayımlanma Tarihi
Gönderilme Tarihi 24 Ekim 2023
Kabul Tarihi 22 Nisan 2024
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2024 Sayı: 18

Kaynak Göster

APA Karaaslan Özgü, F. (2024). Transforming Bodies, Transforming Genres: A Biocapitalistic Representation of Aging in Old (2021). SineFilozofi(18). https://doi.org/10.31122/sinefilozofi.1380505