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Extreme Cinema - The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture (Hardcover)
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Extreme Cinema - The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture (Hardcover)
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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. Film critics and
scholars alike often regard these movies as the work of visionary
auteurs, hailing directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier
as heirs to a tradition of transgressive art. In this provocative
new book, Mattias Frey offers a very different perspective on these
films, exposing how they are also calculated products, designed to
achieve global notoriety in a competitive marketplace. Paying close
attention to the discourses employed by film critics, distributors,
and filmmakers themselves, Extreme Cinema examines the various
tightropes that must be walked when selling transgressive art films
to discerning audiences, distinguishing them from generic horror,
pornography, and Hollywood product while simultaneously hyping
their salacious content. Deftly tracing the links between the local
and the global, Frey also shows how the directors and distributors
of extreme art house fare from both Europe and East Asia have
significant incentives to exaggerate the exotic elements that would
differentiate them from Anglo-American product. Extreme Cinema also
includes original interviews with the programmers of several
leading international film festivals and with niche distributors
and exhibitors, giving readers a revealing look at how these
institutions enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the
""taboo-breakers"" of art house cinema. Frey also demonstrates how
these apparently transgressive films actually operate within a
strict set of codes and conventions, carefully calibrated to
perpetuate a media industry that fuels itself on provocation.
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