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The Feel-Bad Film

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nikolaj LübeckerSeries:Edinburgh Studies in Film and IntermedialityPublish date:2015-05-19Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9780748697991ISBN-10:748697993UPC:9780748697991Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCPWJ158DR

In recent years some of the best-known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in a position of intense discomfort: Feel-Bad Films. These films systematically manipulate the spectator: sometimes by withholding information from her, sometimes by shocking her, and sometimes by seducing her in order to further disturb her. As a result, they have been criticized for being amoral, nihilistic, politically irresponsible and anti-humanistic.
The Feel-Bad Film raises three questions to this body of work: How is the feel-bad experience created? What do the directors believe they can achieve in this manner? And how should the films be situated in intellectual history? Through close analysis of films by Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Brian de Palma, Bruno Dumont and Harmony Korine, the book argues that feel-bad directors invite the spectator to think of art as an experimental activity with ethical norms that are different from the ones we hope to find outside the movie theatre. Only when given the freedom to take advantage of this asymmetry can film realize its ethical potential.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9780748697991ISBN-10:748697993UPC:9780748697991Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCPWJ158DR
Dr Nikolaj Lübecker is Tutor and Fellow in French at St John's College at the University of Oxford. He has a D.E.A. and Ph.D. (Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot), M.A. (University of Copenhagen).

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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