April and May 2013 Academic & Specialist Edinburgh University Press

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe edited by Tanya Horeck, Tina Kendall

The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe
edited by Tanya Horeck, Tina Kendall


Explosive images of sex and violence in films have attracted media attention for the ways in which they seek to shock and provoke the spectator into powerful affective and visceral responses.This first collection of essays devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema critically interrogates this highly contentious body of work and demonstrates that these films and the controversies they engender are indispensable to the critical task of rethinking the terms of spectatorship.