Mattias Frey

Extreme Cinema

The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780813576503
• ISBN-10: 0813576504
• Artikelnr.: 44216677

Autorenporträt

Frey, Mattias

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