Troubled Everyday

The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema

Alison Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4098-1 (ISBN)

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Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that so often frames and forms the majority of these films? Why do the sudden moments of violence that punctuate films like Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl (2001), Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible (2002) and Markus Schleinzer’s Michael (2011) seem so reliant on everyday routines and settings for their impact? Addressing these questions through a series of case-studies, and considering notorious films in their historical and philosophical context, Troubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	25 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	235 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4098-3 / 1474440983
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4098-1 / 9781474440981
Zustand	Neuware