The new extremism in cinema
Subtitle: from France to Europe
By: edited by Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780748641604
Subjects: Motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Flesh and blood : sex and violence in recent French cinema  -- James Quandt -- Part I; title: French cinema and the new extremism --; title: The wounded screen  -- Martine Beugnet; title: Reframing Bataille : on tacky spectatorship in the new European extremism  -- Tina Kendall; title: Beyond anti-Americanism, beyond Euro-centrism : locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine palms in the context of European cinematic extremism  -- Neil Archer -- Part II; title: Becoming animal : posthumanism and the new extremism --; title: Shadows of being in Sombre : archetypes, wolf-men and bare life  -- Jenny Chamarette; title: Eastern extreme : the presentation of eastern Europe as a site of monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export  -- Michael Goddard; title: Naked women, slaughtered animals : Ulrich Seidl and the limits of the real  -- Catherine Wheatley -- Part III; title: Watching the extreme : cultural reception --; title: Watching rape, enjoying watching rape ... : how does a study of audience cha(lle)nge mainstream film studies approaches?  -- Martin Baker; title: Censorship, reception and the films of Gaspar Noé : the emergence of the new extremism in Britain  -- Daniel Hickin; title: "Sex and violence from a pair of furies" : the scandal of Baise-moi  -- Leila Wimmer; title: "Close your eyes and tell me what you see" : sex and politics in Lukas Moodysson's films  -- Mariah Larsson -- Part IV; title: Ethics and spectatorship in the new extremism --; title: Lars von Trier's Dogville : a feel-bad film  -- Nikolaj Lübecker; title: A "passion for the real" : sex, affect and performance in the films of Andrea Arnold  -- Tanya Horeck; title: Interrogating the obscene : extremism and Michael Haneke  -- Lisa Coulthard; title: On the unwatchable  -- Asbjørn Grønstad; title: Afterword --; title: More moralism from that "wordy fuck" -- James Quandt.