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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.

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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

Screening the Unwatchable

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2012 12:01:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781349320646, 978-1349320646
      ISBN10: 1349320641

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table 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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