Genre trouble and extreme cinema : film theory at the fringes of contemporary art cinema
Troy Bordun (Author)
Annotation This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined 'extreme cinema.' In 'Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, ' Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand generic classifications. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected and assembled by spectators in ways that matter for them in both personal and experiential terms. The author deploys contemporary film theories on the senses, both phenomenological and affect theory, and partakes in close readings of the films' forms and narratives
eBook, English, 2017
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2017