Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-230) and index
Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction / Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall -- 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema / James Quandt -- Part I French Cinema and the New Extremism : 3 The Wounded Screen / Martine Beugnet -- 4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism / Tina Kendall -- 5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism / Neil Archer -- Part II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism 6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-Men and Bare Life / Jenny Chamarette -- 7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export / Michael Goddard -- 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real / Catherine Wheatley -- Part III Watching the Extreme: Cultural Reception 9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape{u2026}: How does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Film Studies Approaches?' / Martin Barker -- 10 Censorship, Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain / Daniel Hickin -- 11 'Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies': The Scandal of Baise-moi / Leila Wimmer -- 12 'Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See': Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson's Films / Mariah Larsson -- Part IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism : 13 Lars von Trier's Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film / Nikolaj Lübecker -- 14 A 'Passion for the Real': Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold / Tanya Horeck -- 15 Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and / Michael Haneke Lisa Coulthard -- 16 On the Unwatchable / Asbjørn Grønstad -- Afterword : 17 More Moralism from that 'Wordy Fuck' / James Quandt -- Notes on Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index
Explosive images of sex and violence characterise what has come to be known as the 'new extremism' in contemporary European cinema. This collection of essays is devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema and will critically interrogate this highly contentious body of work
