Les livres en français sont sur www.livres-cinema.info
Transgressive Art Films
Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence
de Oliver Kenny
(0 vote)Moyenne des votes :
| 0 | vote |  = On peut s'en passer |
| 0 | vote |  = Bon livre |
| 0 | vote |  = Excellent livre |
| 0 | vote |  = Unique / une référence |
Votre vote : -
Description de l'ouvrage:
Explores extremity in films and its ethical, theoretical and film-philosophical implications
• Provides a framework for understanding controversial and extreme films
• A theory of transgressive film that responds to theories of transgression, accounts for multiple contradictory viewer perspectives
• Offers an approach that incorporates micro- and macro-scale analysis of films
• Provides a reflection on the ethical and political stakes of scholarly engagement with images of sex, violence, and sexual violence
Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema – not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis – but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. This book provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films of the past twenty-five years.
The term ‘transgressive art film’ designates the phenomenon of a small number of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinema art world as part of an expansion of the definition of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a central plank of cinema’s need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames, through the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, Transgressive Art Films details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being ignored or forgotten.
À propos de l'auteur :
Oliver Kenny is Lecturer in Film and Media at the Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille.
Revue de Presse:
Proposing a refreshingly precise new framework for thinking about transgressive art cinema, Oliver Kenny’s compelling book offers an important intervention into debates surrounding extreme, pornographic, and contentious filmmaking. Paying equal attention to aspects of form, reception, and theory, it promises to revitalise scholarship on transgression in twenty-first-century art cinema.– Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University
Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Edinburgh University Press
> Sur un thème proche :
Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema (2016)
Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body
Dir. Joel Gwynne
Sujet : Sociology
Retour
