Screening the Unwatchable - Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema

Informationen zum Autor ASBJØRN GRØNSTAD Film scholar and professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is founder and director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture Studies and a founding editor of the journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture . He is author of Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008). Klappentext Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms. Zusammenfassung Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché! Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics! and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Against Commodification: Unwatchable Cinema and the Question of Ethics Entropic Cinema, or: Trouble Every Day Bodies, Landscapes and the Tropology of Inertia Spaces of Impropriety The Metapornographic Imagination Be Here to See This: Haneke's Intrusive Images Postscript Selected Filmography Endnotes Bibliography Index

List of contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Against Commodification: Unwatchable Cinema and the Question of Ethics Entropic Cinema, or: Trouble Every Day Bodies, Landscapes and the Tropology of Inertia Spaces of Impropriety The Metapornographic Imagination Be Here to See This: Haneke's Intrusive Images Postscript Selected Filmography Endnotes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Asbj Rn Gr Nstad, A. Gr¿nstad, A. Grnstad, Asbjrn Grnstad, A. Gronstad, Asbjorn Gronstad, A Grønstad, A. Grønstad, GRONSTAD ASBJORN
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2011
• EAN: 9780230248946
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24894-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Genre, B, Media Studies, Ethics, Communication, Film History, Ethics & moral philosophy, Media and Communication, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism, Film genres, Film: styles & genres, Genre Studies