Extreme Cinema

Affective Strategies in Transnational Media

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvAaron Kerner,Jonathan Knapp,San Francisco State University) Kerner, Aaron (Professor and the Director of the School of Cinema

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Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle. Using profound experiments in form and composition, including jarring editing, extreme close-ups, visual disorientation and sounds that straddle the boundary between non-diegetic and diegetic registers, this mode of cinema dwells instead on the exhibition of intense violence and an acute intimacy with the sexual body. Interrogating works such as Wetlands and A Serbian Film, as well as the sub-culture of YouTube ‘reaction videos’, Aaron Michael Kerner and Jonathan L. Knapp demonstrate the way content and form combine in extreme cinema to affectively manipulate the viewing body.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-17
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt437 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474402903

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Aaron Kerner is a Professor and the Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. His publications include a study of the stupid, Theorizing Stupid Media (2019)—exploring cinematic material that does not conform to existing narrative or genre categories. Kerner also published Extreme Cinema (2016). Kerner’s publications often reflect upon the affective potential of the cinematic. Jonathan L. Knapp is a graduate student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He spent a decade working at various film festivals, archives, and museums in the San Francisco Bay Area, and completed an MA in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University. His research is motivated primarily by questions of space, place, and historical trauma—exploring the landscape in conjunction with violence, memory, and the spectral.

Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Extreme Cinema: Revisiting Body Genres; Chapter 2: Hearing: With a Touch of Sound: The Affective Charge of Audio Design; Chapter 3: Pain: Exploring Bodies, Technology, and Endurance; Chapter 4: Laughter: Belly-Aching Laughter; Chapter 5: Arousal: Graphic Encounters; Chapter 6: Crying: Dreadful Melodramas—Family Dramas and Home Invasions; Chapter 7: The End of Extreme Cinema?; Bibliography; Filmography