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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826428303321

Autore

Taylor Alison

Titolo

Troubled everyday : the aesthetics of violence and the everyday in European art cinema / / Alison Taylor [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-4744-1524-5

1-4744-3482-7

1-4744-1523-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 137 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe

Art in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- 'A lightning that illuminates the banal': violence and the everyday -- Everyday moments -- Everyday style -- Everyday structures/everday language -- Return to the everyday -- Conclusion: looking back -- Works cited -- Filmography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

<i>Troubled Everyday</i> offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.