Nikolaj Lubecker

Feel-Bad Film (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years some of the best-known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in a position of intense discomfort: Feel-Bad Films. These films systematically manipulate the spectator: sometimes by withholding information from her, sometimes by shocking her, and sometimes by seducing her in order to further disturb her. As a result, they have been criticized for being amoral, nihilistic, politically irresponsible and anti-humanistic.The Feel-Bad Film raises three questions to this body of work: How is the feel-bad experience created? What do the directors believe they can achieve in this manner? And how should the films be situated in intellectual history? Through close analysis of films by Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Brian de Palma, Bruno Dumont and Harmony Korine, the book argues that feel-bad directors invite the spectator to think of art as an experimental activity with ethical norms that are different from the ones we hope to find outside the movie theatre. Only when given the freedom to take advantage of this asymmetry can film realize its ethical potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748697984
• Artikelnr.: 44754491

Autorenporträt

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at St John's College, University of Oxford. His publications focus on contemporary American and European cinema, French literature and critical theory. His most recent book, The Feel-Bad Film (Edinburgh UP, 2015), investigates logics of unpleasure in films by directors such as Claire Denis, Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Bruno Dumont and Harmony Korine.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Assault
1.1 The Inner Bastard: von Trier's Dogville
1.2 Ethics via the Body: Funny Games, Daisy Diamond and Jacques Rancière
1.3 Going too far? de Palma's Redacted
Part 2: Unease
2.1 Buying a bunch of radishes: Van Sant's Elephant
2.2 An Ethics of Suspension: I Can't Sleep, Hidden and Judith Butler
2.3 Embracing Childhood: Hadzihalilovic' Innocence and Brakhage's
Kindering; Coda: Östlund's Play, Between Assault and Unease
Part 3: Transgression, Transgression
Introduction: Third Generation Avant-Garde?
3.1 The Avant-Garde as Tragedy: Dumont's Twentynine Palms
3.2 Desperation Films: Code Blue, In My Skin and The Bastards
3.3 The Avant-Garde as Farce: Korine's Trash Humpers
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index