Film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Film critics and scholars alike often regard these movies as the work of visionary auteurs. In this provocative new book, Mattias Frey offers a different perspective, exposing how these films are calculated products, designed to achieve global notoriety.
Film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Film critics and scholars alike often regard these movies as the work of visionary auteurs. In this provocative new book, Mattias Frey offers a different perspective, exposing how these films are calculated products, designed to achieve global notoriety.
MATTIAS FREY is the managing director of the Centre for Film and Media Research, an editor of the journal Film Studies, and a reader in film at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism; Cine-Ethics; and Film Criticism in the Digital Age (Rutgers University Press).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Transgression and Distinction: Filmmaker Discourses 2 The Aesthetic Embrace and the Cynicism Criticism: Reception Discourses 3 The Rhetoric and Role of Film Festivals 4 Discourses and Modes of Distribution 5 The Interpretations of Regulation 6 The Added Value of International Distribution 7 Sex, Violence, and Self-Exoticization 8 Aesthetic Innovation and the Real: Academic Debate over Sexually Graphic Art Films 9 A Discursive Approach to Hardcore Art Cinema Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Transgression and Distinction: Filmmaker Discourses 2 The Aesthetic Embrace and the Cynicism Criticism: Reception Discourses 3 The Rhetoric and Role of Film Festivals 4 Discourses and Modes of Distribution 5 The Interpretations of Regulation 6 The Added Value of International Distribution 7 Sex, Violence, and Self-Exoticization 8 Aesthetic Innovation and the Real: Academic Debate over Sexually Graphic Art Films 9 A Discursive Approach to Hardcore Art Cinema Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index
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