Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence

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Oliver Kenny (Lecturer in Film and Media, Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Catholic University of Lille.)

Transgressive Art Films

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Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence

Oliver Kenny (Lecturer in Film and Media, Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Catholic University of Lille.)

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Edinburgh University Press
24 January 2024

Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Film & movie: styles & genres

Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema

not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis

but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. This book provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films of the past twenty-five years.

The term 'transgressive art film' designates the phenomenon of a small number of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinema art world as part of an expansion of the definition of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a central plank of cinema's need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames, through the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, Transgressive Art Films details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being ignored or forgotten.

By: Oliver Kenny (Lecturer in Film and Media Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC) Catholic University of Lille.)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474483933
ISBN 10: 1474483933
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 24 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Oliver Kenny is Lecturer in Film and Media at the Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Universite Catholique de Lille.

Reviews for Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence

"""Proposing a refreshingly precise new framework for thinking about transgressive art cinema, Oliver Kenny's compelling book offers an important intervention into debates surrounding extreme, pornographic, and contentious filmmaking. Paying equal attention to aspects of form, reception, and theory, it promises to revitalise scholarship on transgression in twenty-first-century art cinema."" -Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University"