Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema
eBook - PDF

Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema

Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture

  1. 242 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema

Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture

About this book

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Paratext, and Home Video Culture focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film and prepare the audience for a particular type of cinematic experience. The book discusses the complex interactions that take place on these commercial artefacts, the ways they communicate to both 'highbrow' and 'lowbrow' audiences, and the manner in which they breach tradition taste distinctions. Including case studies of features like Cannibal Holocaust, Funny Games and Antichrist, the book explores the complicated dichotomies between art and exploitation films to present a fluid history of extreme art cinema.

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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781474427395
Edition
0
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Chapter 1 Introduction
  6. Chapter 2 Art and Exploitation: Crossover, Slippage and Fluidity
  7. Chapter 3 Early Extremity on DVD: History, Precursors and Exploitation Auteurs
  8. Chapter 4 Weekend and Cannibal Holocaust: Art, Ballyhoo and Remediation
  9. Chapter 5 Salò, Or the 120 Days of Sodom and Ilsa, the Wicked Warden: Fascism, Pornography and Disg
  10. Chapter 6 Contemporary Extremity on DVD: Trends, Hard-core and Geographic Mobility
  11. Chapter 7 Michael Haneke: Glaciation, Legitimacy and Transgression
  12. Chapter 8 Lars von Trier: Provocation, Condemnation and Confrontation
  13. Chapter 9 Conclusion
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index