The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe examines extreme, transgressive cinema which developed following a post-2000 wave in filmmaking that aestheticised violence on audio-visual, narrative and thematic levels.
Batori investigates the ways in which contemporary national trends from within Eastern Europe correspond to the global stream of transgressive filmmaking and shock aesthetics that have become the dominant markers of world cinema. Do these art productions intend to reveal and criticise aggressions in domestic landscapes or are they part of a contemporary global visual discourse? With a specific focus on gender, this book highlights both nation-specific features of these films and their relationship to global extreme art films.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
In this unparalleled and timely contribution to studies of East European cinema, Batori brings an interdisciplinary analysis to films that range from the Yugoslav Black Wave to contemporary examples of extreme cinema in which gendered representations of violence, torture and rape are symbolic of the region's own troubled relationship to its histories. -- Aniko Imre, University of Southern California This is a stellar study but the subject matter is not for the faint of heart [...] exploring the "genre" of extreme cinema as it has emerged in the past 50 years in Eastern Europe. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- G. R. Butters Jr. * CHOICE *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Illustrationen
19 black and white illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 151 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4833-8 (9781474448338)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Anna Batori is an Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest.
Autor*in
Associate Professor in Film StudiesUniversity of Theatre and Film, Budapest
List of Figures
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Cradle of Eastern Extremism: Sexual Oppression and the Yugoslav Black Wave
Chapter 2. The Political Transition and the Extreme: Cinema of Castration
Chapter 3. Post-Socialist Animality: Towards an (Eastern European) Extreme Cinema
Chapter 4. Eastern Extreme Cinema: (S)exploitation and Animal Death
Chapter 5. Post-War Extremism: Subversive Serbia
Chapter 6. Towards Contemporary Extreme Forms of Double Colonialism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Notes
