Screening the Unwatchable [electronic resource] : Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema /
Grønstad, A.author.
Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Against commodification:  unwatchable cinema and the question of ethics -- Entropic cinema, or trouble every day --  Bodies, landscapes and the tropology of inertia -- Spaces of impropriety -- The metapornographic imagination -- Be here to see this: Haneke's intrusive images -- Postscript.
Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures-History.
Ethics.
Film genres.
Communication.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Ethics.
Genre.
Media Studies.