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.

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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).

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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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