Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:00:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "M.A. King" <kingma-AT-mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Re: Foucauldians




On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, John Ransom wrote:

> discuss the way capable and reliable workers are created. Are there any
> movies out there that take seriously what people go through in Boot Camp?

Full Metal Jacket?  A good illustration of power producing the forms of
resistance to itself, too, I guess.  Doesn't really address the original
question about films "about" biopower, though.

Matthew

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