The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas, by Elena del Río, and Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky, by Tarja Laine

While graphic extremism in the cinema is certainly not new and can be traced back to the oeuvres of twentieth-century auteurs—such as Luis Buñuel, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Warner Fassbinder—a more recent urgency to characterise and define the parameters of extreme cinema has been inspired by J...

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Main Author: Jenny Gunn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2017-07-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
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Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/HTML/ReviewGunn.html