Extreme cinema : the transgressive rhetoric of today's art film culture
Mattias Frey (Author)
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 how these seemingly transgressive films actually operate within a strict set of codes and conventions, translating global notoriety into success within a competitive marketplace, and perpetuating a system that runs on provocation
eBook,English, 2016
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2016
1 online resource
9780813576527, 9780813576510, 0813576520, 0813576512
944961559
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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