Extreme cinema : affective strategies in transnational media /

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Examines how extreme cinema mobilises explicit content and highly embellished aesthetics to affect spectators. Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle. Usi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Kerner, Aaron (Author), Knapp, Jonathan L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Violence in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > History.
Violence au cinéma.
Sexualité au cinéma.
Cinéma > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Motion pictures.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note 1. Extreme Cinema: Revisiting Body Genres
  • 2. Hearing: With a Touch of Sound
  • The Affective Charge of Audio Design
  • 3. Pain: Exploring Bodies, Technology, and Endurance
  • 4. Laughter: Belly-aching Laughter
  • 5. Arousal: Graphic Encounters
  • 6. Crying: Dreadful Melodramas
  • Family Dramas and Home Invasions
  • 7. The End of Extreme Cinema?

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