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Book SynopsisTracing 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 ContentsList 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
