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Troubled everyday : the aesthetics of violence and the everyday in European art cinema

Title
Troubled everyday : the aesthetics of violence and the everyday in European art cinema / Alison Taylor.
Author
Taylor, Alison
Publication
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Description
v, 137 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that so often frames and forms the majority of these films? Why do the sudden moments of violence that punctuate films like Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Gaspar Noe's Irreversible (2002) and Markus Schleinzer's Michael (2011) seem so reliant on everyday routines and settings for their impact? Addressing these questions through a series of case-studies, and considering notorious films in their historical and philosophical context, Alice Taylor offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination. Case Studies include: Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini 1975) Money (Bresson 1983 Come and See (Klimov 1985) The Seventh Continent (Haneke 1989) I Stand Alone (Noe 1998) Fat Girl (Breillat 2001) Irreversible (Noe 2002)Twentynine Palms (Dumont 2003) Michael (Schleinzer 2011).
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Europe
  • Art in motion pictures
  • Violence in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography (pages 133-134), bibliographical references (pages 125-131) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- 'A lightning that illuminates the banal': violence and the everyday -- Everyday moments -- Everyday style -- Everyday structures/everday language -- Return to the everyday -- Conclusion: looking back -- Works cited -- Filmography -- Index.
Call Number
MFL 17-3147
ISBN
  • 9781474415224
  • 1474415229
OCLC
961798617
Author
Taylor, Alison, author.
Title
Troubled everyday : the aesthetics of violence and the everyday in European art cinema / Alison Taylor.
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes filmography (pages 133-134), bibliographical references (pages 125-131) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 17-3147
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