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[Commlist] New book: Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence

Wed Nov 29 13:13:45 GMT 2023





Please find below details about a new monograph out now with Edinburgh University Press: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transgressive-art-films.html <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transgressive-art-films.html>


/Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence/ by Oliver Kenny

  * Explores extremity in films and its ethical, theoretical and
    film-philosophical implications
  * Provides a framework for understanding controversial and extreme films
  * A theory of transgressive film that responds to theories of
    transgression, accounts for multiple contradictory viewer perspectives
  * Offers an approach that incorporates micro- and macro-scale analysis
    of films
  * Provides a reflection on the ethical and political stakes of
    scholarly engagement with images of sex, violence, and sexual violence


/Transgressive Art Films/ offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema – not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis – but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. This book provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films of the past twenty-five years.

The term ‘transgressive art film’ designates the phenomenon of a small number of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinema art world as part of an expansion of the definition of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a central plank of cinema’s need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames, through the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, /Transgressive Art Films/ details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being ignored or forgotten.

"Proposing a refreshingly precise new framework for thinking about transgressive art cinema, Oliver Kenny’s compelling book offers an important intervention into debates surrounding extreme, pornographic, and contentious filmmaking. Paying equal attention to aspects of form, reception, and theory, it promises to revitalise scholarship on transgression in twenty-first-century art cinema." (Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University)


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