Free Download Aaron Kerner, "Extreme Cinema: Affective Strategies in Transnational Media"
English | ISBN: 1474402909 | 2016 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle. Using profound experiments in form and composition, including jarring editing, extreme close-ups, visual disorientation and sounds that straddle the boundary between non-diegetic and diegetic registers, this mode of cinema dwells instead on the exhibition of intense violence and an acute intimacy with the sexual body. Interrogating works such as