Cultivating extreme art cinema: text, paratext and home video culture

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film

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Main Author: Hobbs, Simon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2018
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Summary:Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film
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Introduction -- - Art and exploitation: crossover, slippage and fluidity -- - Early extremity on DVD: history, precursors and exploitation auteurs -- - Weekend and Cannibal Holocaust: art, Ballyhoo and remediation -- - Salò, Or the 120 Days of Sodom and Ilsa, the Wicked Warden: fascism, pornography and disgust -- - Contemporary extremity on DVD: trends, hard-core and geographic mobility -- - Michael Haneke: glaciation, legitimacy and transgression -- - Lars von Trier: provocation, condemnation and confrontation -- - Conclusion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 234 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474427395

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