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 Noe's Irreversible (2002) and Markus Schleinzer's Michael (2011) seem so reliant on everyday routines and settings for their impact? Addressing these questions through a series of case-studies, and considering notorious films in their historical and philosophical context, Troubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.

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Author:   Alison Taylor
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781474415224

ISBN 10:   1474415229
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   05 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of figures Chapter One: ‘A lightning that illuminates the banal’: Violence and the Everyday From extremism to everyday Approaching Disturbing Aesthetics Chapter Two: Everyday Moments Discourse of immediacy Towards the everyday Salò Come and See Chapter Three: Everyday Style Reframing Everyday Style Style Versus Content in Money and The Seventh Continent Everyday Style and the ‘Fruitful Ambivalence’ of the Ordinary Chapter Four: Everyday Structures / Everyday Language Fat Girl, Twentynine Palms, and the Critics Authorial personas Generic expectations and generic breaks Orientation beyond genre Twentynine Palms Fat Girl Chapter Five: Return to the Everyday Everyday Time I Stand Alone Michael Conclusion: Looking Back Mourning the world: the everyday as transcendent, the everyday as lost in Irreversible Works Cited Filmography

Reviews

So often we are dazzled by spectacle; in Troubled Everyday Taylor makes a compelling case for the importance of paying attention to the quotidian. A beautifully written, carefully observed account of the relation of the everyday to violence in film, Taylor not only reframed my thinking about the films in question, but about film as a medium.--Catherine Wheatley, KCL

So often we are dazzled by spectacle; in Troubled Everyday Taylor makes a compelling case for the importance of paying attention to the quotidian. A beautifully written, carefully observed account of the relation of the everyday to violence in film, Taylor not only reframed my thinking about the films in question, but about film as a medium. -- Catherine Wheatley, KCL

Author Information

Alison Taylor is Senior Teaching Fellow at Bond University. In 2014, she received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses at the University of Queensland.

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