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The Cinema of Discomfort - Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film (Hardcover)
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The Cinema of Discomfort - Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film (Hardcover)
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How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of
discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book
examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of
contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream
tends to offer comforting viewing experiences - or moments of
discomfort that exist largely to be overcome - The Cinema of
Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a
sustained manner. Cinema of this kind confronts us with material
such as distinctly uncomfortable sexual encounters. It invites us
into uncertain relationships with awkward and sometimes unlikable
characters. It presents us with challenging behaviour or what are
presented as uncomfortable realities. It often refuses information
on which to base judgments. More discomfortingly, cinema of this
kind tends to provoke uncertainty at the level of what emotional
responses we are encouraged to have towards difficult, sometimes
controversial, characters or events. The Cinema of Discomfort
examines a number of case-studies, including Palindromes by Todd
Solondz (US) and Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece), along
with other examples from Austria, Sweden, the UK, the US and
Germany. Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which
discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the
appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of
films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their
socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms
of art and indie film.
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