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9780230248946

Screening the Unwatchable Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230248946

  • ISBN10:

    0230248942

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-12-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Tracingthe rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiotsto Michael Haneke's Cache,Asbjorn Gronstad revivesthe debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, andreframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.

Author Biography

Asbjrn Grnstad is a film scholar and professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is founder and director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture Studies and a founding editor of the journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. He is author of Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. viii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Against Commodification: Unwatchable Cinema and the Question of Ethicsp. 15
Entropic Cinema, or Trouble Every Dayp. 43
Bodies, Landscapes, and the Tropology of Inertiap. 57
Spaces of Improprietyp. 84
The Metapornographic Imaginationp. 121
"Be Here to See This:" Haneke's Intrusive Imagesp. 150
Postscriptp. 163
Selected Filmographyp. 165
Selected Bibliographyp. 166
Notesp. 177
Indexp. 204
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