The grace of destruction
Subtitle: a vital ethology of extreme cinemas
By: Elena del Río
Series: Thinking cinema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781501303029; 9781501303036
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy; Violence in motion pictures; PHILOSOPHY / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "A Deleuzian study of the negative affects in extreme/violent cinemas as a form of ethological experimentation"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: From Violence to Forces: Extreme Cinemas as Ethological Experimentation; title: Chapter 1: The Disease of Morality; title: Chapter 2: Bare Life; title: Chapter 3: Physics of Violence, Folds of Pain; title: Chapter 4: Ethology of Death; title: Chapter 5: Extinction; title: Bibliography; title: Index.