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

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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