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Author Bordun, Troy, author

Title Genre trouble and extreme cinema : film theory at the fringes of contemporary art cinema / Troy Bordun
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction: Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema -- 2. Carlos Reygadas, the Avant-Garde, and the Senses -- 3.!Que Viva Mexico!: Reygadas as Documentarian -- 4. I Don't Know It When I See it: Catherine Breillat's Pornography -- 5. Horrible Pornography: Fat Girl (À ma soeur!, 2001) -- 6. Onscreen and Off-screen Flesh and Blood: Performance, Pornography, Ethics -- 7. Reframing Spectatorship Theory with Extreme Cinema -- 8. Conclusion: Know Genre, No Trouble
Summary Annotation This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined 'extreme cinema.' In 'Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, ' Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand generic classifications. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected and assembled by spectators in ways that matter for them in both personal and experiential terms. The author deploys contemporary film theories on the senses, both phenomenological and affect theory, and partakes in close readings of the films' forms and narratives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
Art in motion pictures.
Experimental films.
Motion picture industry -- Marketing
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Art in motion pictures
Experimental films
Motion picture industry -- Marketing
Motion pictures -- Production and direction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319658940
3319658948