Extreme Cinema : The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture /

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From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Extreme Cinema draws from interviews with film festival programmers, distributors, critics, and directors to demonstrate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frey, Mattias (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Performing Arts.
Film history, theory & criticism.
Human rights, civil rights.
Violence in society.
Media studies.
Films, cinema.
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Motion picture industry > Marketing.
Experimental films.
Art in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Art au cinema.
Cinema > Production et realisation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Transgression and distinction: filmmaker discourses
  • The aesthetic embrace and the cynicism criticism: reception discourses
  • The rhetoric and role of film festivals
  • Discourses and modes of distribution
  • The interpretations of regulation
  • The added value of international distribution
  • Sex, violence, and self-exoticization
  • Aesthetic innovation and the real: academic debate over sexually graphic art films
  • A discursive approach to hardcore art cinema
  • Afterword.

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