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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477179703321

Autore

Kerner Aaron

Titolo

Extreme cinema : affective strategies in transnational media / / Aaron Michael Kerner and Jonathan L. Knapp [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-4744-2602-6

1-4744-2200-4

1-4744-0291-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

AP 47950

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Violence in motion pictures

Sex in motion pictures

Motion pictures - History

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Extreme Cinema: Revisiting Body Genres -- 2 Hearing: With a Touch of Sound—The Affective Charge of Audio Design -- 3 Pain: Exploring Bodies, Technology, and Endurance -- 4 Laughter: Belly-aching Laughter -- 5 Arousal: Graphic Encounters -- 6 Crying: Dreadful Melodramas— Family Dramas and Home Invasions -- 7 The End of Extreme Cinema? -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle.