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Screening the Unwatchable

Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema

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  1. Asbjørn Grønstad
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 1-14

  3. Against Commodification: Unwatchable Cinema and the Question of Ethics

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 15-42

  4. Entropic Cinema, or Trouble Every Day

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 43-56

  5. Bodies, Landscapes, and the Tropology of Inertia

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 57-83

  6. Spaces of Impropriety

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 84-120

  7. The Metapornographic Imagination

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 121-149

  8. “Be Here to See This”: Haneke’s Intrusive Images

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 150-162

  9. Postscript

    • Asbjørn Grønstad
    Pages 163-164

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-213
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About this book

Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.

About the author

ASBJØRN GRØNSTAD Film scholar and professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is founder and director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture Studies and a founding editor of the journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. He is author of Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Screening the Unwatchable

  • Book Subtitle: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema

  • Authors: Asbjørn Grønstad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355859

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24894-6Published: 08 November 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32064-6Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35585-9Published: 20 November 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 213

  • Topics: Screen Studies, Film History, Ethics, Genre, Media Studies

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