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Flesh and blood : sex and violence in recent French cinema / James Quandt -- Part I French cinema and the new extremism -- The wounded screen / Martine Beugnet -- Reframing Bataille : on tacky spectatorship in the new European extremism / Tina Kendall -- Beyond anti-Americanism, beyond Euro-centrism : locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine palms in the context of European cinematic extremism / Neil Archer -- Part II Becoming animal : posthumanism and the new extremism -- Shadows of being in Sombre : archetypes, wolf-men and bare life / Jenny Chamarette -- Eastern extreme : the presentation of eastern Europe as a site of monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export / Michael Goddard -- Naked women, slaughtered animals : Ulrich Seidl and the limits of the real / Catherine Wheatley -- Part III Watching the extreme : cultural reception -- Watching rape, enjoying watching rape ... : how does a study of audience cha(lle)nge mainstream film studies approaches? / Martin Baker -- Censorship, reception and the films of Gaspar Noé : the emergence of the new extremism in Britain / Daniel Hickin -- "Sex and violence from a pair of furies" : the scandal of Baise-moi / Leila Wimmer -- "Close your eyes and tell me what you see" : sex and politics in Lukas Moodysson's films / Mariah Larsson -- Part IV Ethics and spectatorship in the new extremism -- Lars von Trier's Dogville : a feel-bad film / Nikolaj Lübecker -- A "passion for the real" : sex, affect and performance in the films of Andrea Arnold / Tanya Horeck -- Interrogating the obscene : extremism and Michael Haneke / Lisa Coulthard -- On the unwatchable / Asbjørn Grønstad -- Afterword -- More moralism from that "wordy fuck" / James Quandt. |
