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Extreme cinema
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Aaron Kerner is a Professor and the Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. His publications include a study of the stupid, Theorizing Stupid Media (2019)-exploring cinematic material that does not conform to existing narrative or genre categories. Kerner also published Extreme Cinema (2016). Kerner's publications often reflect upon the affective potential of the cinematic.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781474426022
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (31 August 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 179
- Weight
- 302 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 11 mm
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