The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe

Tanya Horeck; Tina Kendall

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

The New Extremism in Cinema

From France to Europe

Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748647095

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About this book

Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noé, 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 theories of spectator ship, this exploration of the darkest side of cinema will be an invaluable resource for film scholars and students.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Chapter 1 Introduction Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema James Quandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Part 1 French Cinema and the New Extremism
Chapter 3 The Wounded Screen Martine Beugnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism Tina Kendall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism Neil Archer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Part II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism
Chapter 6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-men and Bare Life Jenny Chamarette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export Michael Goddard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real Catherine Wheatley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape . . .: How Does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Mainstream Film Studies Approaches? Martin Barker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 10 Censorship, Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain Daniel Hickin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 11 ‘Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies’: The Scandal of Baise-moi Leila Wimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Chapter 12 ‘Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See’: Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson’s Films Mariah Larsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Part IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism
Chapter 13 Lars von Trier’s Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film Nikolaj Lübecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 14 A ‘Passion for the Real’: Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold Tanya Horeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 15 Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and Michael Haneke Lisa Coulthard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Chapter 16 On the Unwatchable Asbjørn Grønstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Afterword
Chapter 17 More Moralism from that ‘Wordy Fuck’ James Quandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: June 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780748647095