Screen LibraryGenre Trouble and Extreme Cinema : Film Theory at the Fringes of Contemporary Art Cinema /
This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined extreme cinema . In Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand our gen...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65894-0 |
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This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined extreme cinema . In Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand our generic classifications. Through the re-organization of the visual presentation of genre-specific clich s and devices, their films transform sense experience and thought. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XI, 244 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319658940 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J905 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema -- 2. Carlos Reygadas, the Avant-Garde, and the Senses -- 3. !Que Viva Mexico!: Reygadas as Documentarian -- 4. I Don t Know It When I See it: Catherine Breillat s Pornography -- 5. Horrible Pornography: Fat Girl ( ma soeur!, 2001) -- 6. Onscreen and Off-screen Flesh and Blood: Performance, Pornography, Ethics -- 7. Reframing Spectatorship Theory with Extreme Cinema -- 8. Conclusion: Know Genre, No Trouble. |