Troubled Everyday

Alison Taylor is Senior Teaching Fellow at Bond University. In 2014, she received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses at the University of Queensland.

• Acknowledgments List of figures Chapter One: ‘A lightning that illuminates the banal’: Violence and the Everyday From extremism to everyday Approaching Disturbing Aesthetics Chapter Two: Everyday Moments Discourse of immediacy Towards the everyday Salò Come and See Chapter Three: Everyday Style Reframing Everyday Style Style Versus Content in Money and The Seventh Continent Everyday Style and the ‘Fruitful Ambivalence’ of the Ordinary Chapter Four: Everyday Structures / Everyday Language Fat Girl, Twentynine Palms, and the Critics Authorial personas Generic expectations and generic breaks Orientation beyond genre Twentynine Palms Fat Girl Chapter Five: Return to the Everyday Everyday Time I Stand Alone Michael Conclusion: Looking Back Mourning the world: the everyday as transcendent, the everyday as lost in Irreversible Works Cited Filmography

So often we are dazzled by spectacle; in Troubled Everyday Taylor makes a compelling case for the importance of paying attention to the quotidian. A beautifully written, carefully observed account of the relation of the everyday to violence in film, Taylor not only reframed my thinking about the films in question, but about film as a medium.