Iconoclasm in European Cinema

Brimming with sharp insights and concise observations, Chiara Quaranta's scintillating and exquisitely interdisciplinary study engages with a broad range of canonical works of art cinema and the avant-garde to analyze how the destruction of images can be a productive practice both artistically and ethically.--Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen Through detailed and engaging readings of select films--by Bene, Bergman, Debord, Duras, Godard, Isou, Jarman, and Kieślowski--Chiara Quaranta demonstrates impressively how the destruction of the image within European cinema can be generative of an enabling ethics which foregrounds the importance of listening and imagining in the film experience.--Sarah Cooper, King's College London Iconoclasm in European Cinema is an extremely useful guide for thinking about the nature of moving images as processual apparatuses, never constricted or reduced to their apparent representational function, but rather to be intended as experiential and dialogical means of signification. --Francesco Sticchi ""Film-Philosophy""