The New Extremism in Cinema : : From France to Europe / / Tanya Horeck, Tina Kendall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Horeck, Tanya,; Kendall, Tina,
• MitwirkendeR: Archer, Neil,; Barker, Martin,; Beugnet, Martine,; Chamarette, Jenny,; Coulthard, Lisa,; Goddard, Michael,; Grønstad, Asbjørn,; Hickin, Daniel,; Horeck, Tanya,; Kendall, Tina,; Larsson, Mariah,; Lübecker, Nikolaj,; Quandt, James,; Wheatley, Catherine,; Wimmer, Leila,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have attracted media attention for the ways in which they seek to shock and provoke the spectator into powerful affective and visceral responses.This first collection of essays devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema critically interrogates this highly contentious body of work and demonstrates that these films and the controversies they engender are indispensable to the critical task of rethinking the terms of spectatorship. Through critical discussions of key films and directors, this book sheds new light on cutting-edge debates in Film Studies regarding sexuality, violence and spectatorship, affect and ethics, and the political dimensions of extreme cinema.Including important new work from internationally renowned scholars Martin Barker and Martine Beugnet, as well as combining a range of approaches to extreme cinema across audience research and theories of spectator ship, this exploration of the darkest side of cinema will be an invaluable resource for film scholars and students.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema -- Part 1 French Cinema and the New Extremism -- 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/Export -- Chapter 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real -- 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 Films -- Part 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 15 Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and Michael Haneke -- Chapter 16 On the Unwatchable -- Afterword -- Chapter 17 More Moralism from that ‘Wordy Fuck’ -- Notes on Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index