The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe

ISBN-13: 9780748641604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Tanya Horeck; Tina Kendall

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Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, 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
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Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema James Quandt Part I French Cinema and the New Extremism 3 The Wounded Screen Martine Beugnet 4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism Tina Kendall 5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism Neil Archer Part II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism 6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-Men and Bare Life Jenny Chamarette 7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export Michael Goddard 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real Catherine Wheatley Part III Watching the Extreme: Cultural Reception 9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape…: How does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Film Studies Approaches?' Martin Barker 10 Censorship, Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain Daniel Hickin 11 'Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies': The Scandal of Baise-moi Leila Wimmer 12 'Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See': Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson's Films Mariah Larsson Part IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism 13 Lars von Trier's Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film Nikolaj Lübecker 14 A 'Passion for the Real': Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold Tanya Horeck 15 Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and Michael Haneke Lisa Coulthard 16 On the Unwatchable Asbjørn Grønstad Afterword 17 More Moralism from that 'Wordy Fuck' James Quandt Notes on Contributors Works Cited Index