Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema

by Alison Taylor

Book Overview

Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that so often frames and forms the majority of these films? Why do the sudden moments of violence that punctuate films like Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Gaspar No'e's Irreversible (2002) and Markus Schleinzer's Michael (2011) seem so reliant on everyday routines and settings for their impact?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474440983
• ISBN13: 9781474440981
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"