[Commlist] New Book: The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe Rape, Art, (S)Exploitation

*New Book: The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe Rape, Art, 
(S)Exploitation (Edinburgh University Press)*
Batori investigates the ways in which contemporary national trends from 
within Eastern Europe correspond to the global stream of transgressive 
filmmaking and shock aesthetics that have become the dominant markers of 
world cinema. Do these art productions intend to reveal and criticise 
aggressions in domestic landscapes or are they part of a contemporary 
global visual discourse? With a specific focus on gender, this book 
highlights both nation-specific features of these films and their 
relationship to global extreme art films.

  * How do Eastern European extreme films deal with violence on an
    audio-visual, narrative and thematic level?
  * To what extent are shock-tactics deployed differently between world
    cinema and the post-socialist block? What local variations and
    specialisms do we find within the region?
  * What do the injured and/or pornographic bodies and sexual abuse
    represent in the contemporary cinema art and exploitation cinema of
    Eastern Europe?

Contents:

  * Introduction
  * Chapter 1. The Cradle of Eastern Extremism: Sexual Oppression and
    the Yugoslav Black Wave
  * Chapter 2. The Political Transition and the Extreme: Cinema of
    Castration
  * Chapter 3. Post-Socialist Animality: Towards an (Eastern European)
    Extreme Cinema
  * Chapter 4. Eastern Extreme Cinema: (S)exploitation and Animal Death
  * Chapter 5. Post-War Extremism: Subversive Serbia
  * Chapter 6. Towards Contemporary Extreme Forms of Double Colonialism

"In this unparalleled and timely contribution to studies of East 
European cinema, Batori brings an interdisciplinary analysis to films 
that range from the Yugoslav Black Wave to contemporary examples of 
extreme cinema in which gendered representations of violence, torture 
and rape are symbolic of the region’s own troubled relationship to its 
histories."
– Aniko Imre, University of Southern California
"This is a stellar study but the subject matter is not for the faint of 
heart [...] exploring the “genre” of extreme cinema as it has emerged in 
the past 50 years in Eastern Europe. Summing Up: Recommended. 
Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals".
– G. R. Butters Jr., CHOICE
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-extreme-cinema-of-eastern-europe.html 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-extreme-cinema-of-eastern-europe.html>
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Batori-2 
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Batori-2>

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