Alison Taylor

Troubled Everyday (eBook, ePUB)

The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that so often frames and forms the majority of these films? Why do the sudden moments of violence that punctuate films like Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Gaspar Noe's Irreversible (2002) and Markus Schleinzer's Michael (2011) seem so reliant on everyday routines and settings for their impact? Addressing these questions through a series of case-studies, and considering notorious films in their historical and philosophical context, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474415248
• Artikelnr.: 50401855

Autorenporträt

Alison Taylor is Senior Teaching Fellow at Bond University. In 2014, she received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses at the University of Queensland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of figures
Chapter One: 'A lightning that illuminates the banal': Violence and the Everyday
Chapter Two: Everyday Moments
Chapter Three: Everyday Style
Chapter Four: Everyday Structures / Everyday Language
Chapter Five: Return to the Everyday
Conclusion: Looking Back
Works Cited
Filmography