This is an exploration into the darkest side of cinema. Explosive
images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine
Breillat, Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have
attracted media attention for the ways in which they seek to shock
and provoke the spectator into powerful affective and visceral
responses. This first collection of essays devoted to the new
extremism in contemporary European cinema critically interrogates
this highly contentious body of work and demonstrates that these
films and the controversies they engender are indispensable to the
critical task of rethinking the terms of spectatorship. Through
critical discussions of key films and directors, this book sheds
new light on cutting-edge debates in Film Studies regarding
sexuality, violence and spectatorship, affect and ethics, and the
political dimensions of extreme cinema. Including important new
work from internationally renowned scholars Martin Barker and
Martine Beugnet, as well as combining a range of approaches to
extreme cinema across audience research and theories of
spectatorship, this exploration of the darkest side of cinema is an
invaluable resource for film scholars and students.
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