- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- Summary
- Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, the book 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.--
- Uniform Title
- Cultivating extreme art cinema (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Cultivating extreme art cinema (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-226) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Art and exploitation: crossover, slippage and fluidity -- Early extremity on DVD: history, precursors and exploitation auteurs -- Weekend and Cannibal Holocaust: art, Ballyhoo and remediation -- Salò, Or the 120 Days of Sodom and Ilsa, the Wicked Warden: fascism, pornography and disgust -- Contemporary extremity on DVD: trends, hard-core and geographic mobility -- Michael Haneke: glaciation, legitimacy and transgression -- Lars von Trier: provocation, condemnation and confrontation -- Conclusion.
- LCCN
- 2018289101
- OCLC
- ssj0002183982
- Author
Hobbs, Simon.
- Title
Cultivating extreme art cinema [electronic resource] : text, paratext and home video culture / Simon Hobbs.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-226) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Other Form:
Electronic version: Hobbs, Simon. Cultivating extreme art cinema. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018 9781474427395 (OCoLC)1047549497