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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461376403321

Titolo

The new extremism in cinema [[electronic resource] ] : from France to Europe / / edited by Tanya C. Horeck, Tina Kendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5122-5

1-283-22184-5

9786613221841

0-7486-4709-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoreckTanya

KendallTina

Disciplina

791.4361

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe - History

Sex in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema; PART I French Cinema and the NewExtremism; Chapter 3 The Wounded Screen; Chapter 4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism; Chapter 5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism; PART II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism; Chapter 6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-men and Bare Life

Chapter 7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/ExportChapter 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real; PART III Watching the Extreme: Cultural Reception; Chapter 9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape . . .: How Does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Mainstream Film Studies Approaches?; Chapter 10 Censorship,



Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain; Chapter 11 'Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies': The Scandal of Baise-moi

Chapter 12 'Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See': Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson's FilmsPART IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism; Chapter 13 Lars von Trier's Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film; Chapter 14 A 'Passion for the Real': Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold; Chapter 16 On the Unwatchable; Afterword; Chapter 17 More Moralism from that 'Wordy Fuck'; Notes on Contributors; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explosive images of sex and violence characterise what has come to be known as the 'new extremism' in contemporary European cinema. This collection of essays is devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema and will critically interrogate this highly contentious body of work.