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1 online resource (179 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-172), filmography (pages 173-175) , and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note 1. Extreme Cinema: Revisiting Body Genres -- 2. Hearing: With a Touch of Sound -- The Affective Charge of Audio Design -- 3. Pain: Exploring Bodies, Technology, and Endurance -- 4. Laughter: Belly-aching Laughter -- 5. Arousal: Graphic Encounters -- 6. Crying: Dreadful Melodramas -- Family Dramas and Home Invasions -- 7. The End of Extreme Cinema? |
| Summary |
Examines how extreme cinema mobilises explicit content and highly embellished aesthetics to affect spectators. Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle. Using profound experiments in form and composition, including jarring editing, extreme close-ups, visual disorientation and sounds that straddle the boundary between non-diegetic and diegetic registers, this mode of cinema dwells instead on the exhibition of intense violence and an acute intimacy with the sexual body. Interrogating works such as Wetlands and A Serbian Film, as well as the sub-culture of YouTube 'reaction videos', Aaron Michael Kerner and Jonathan L. Knapp demonstrate the way content and form combine in extreme cinema to affectively manipulate the viewing body. Key features. Considers a wide scope of international approaches to extreme cinema Draws together a diverse body of theoretical ideas to work towards a conceptualisation of the affective potential in the cinema Engages critically with films that have received little scholarly attention Cases studies include Wetlands, A Serbian Film and Helter Skelter |
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Violence in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Violence au cinéma.
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Sexualité au cinéma.
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Cinéma -- Histoire.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Sex in motion pictures
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Violence in motion pictures
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Electronic books.
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History
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| Added Author |
Knapp, Jonathan L., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kerner, Aaron. Extreme cinema. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016 9781474402903 (OCoLC)933273999 |
| ISBN |
9781474402910 (electronic bk.) |
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1474402917 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474422000 |
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1474422004 |
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147441446X |
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9781474414463 |
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9781474402903 |
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1474402909 |
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9781474414463 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000061236056 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910052790305765 |
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UKMGB 017880329 |
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