Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474440981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Alison Taylor

Opis

Troubled Everyday' offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
List of figures

Chapter One: ‘A lightning that illuminates the banal’: Violence and the Everyday
From extremism to everyday
Approaching Disturbing Aesthetics

Chapter Two: Everyday Moments
Discourse of immediacy
Towards the everyday
Salò
Come and See

Chapter Three: Everyday Style
Reframing Everyday Style
Style Versus Content in Money and The Seventh Continent
Everyday Style and the ‘Fruitful Ambivalence’ of the Ordinary

Chapter Four: Everyday Structures / Everyday Language
Fat Girl, Twentynine Palms, and the Critics
Authorial personas
Generic expectations and generic breaks
Orientation beyond genre
Twentynine Palms
Fat Girl

Chapter Five: Return to the Everyday
Everyday Time
I Stand Alone
Michael

Conclusion: Looking Back
Mourning the world: the everyday as transcendent, the everyday as lost in Irreversible
Works Cited
Filmography