The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film by Geoff King, Geoff King

The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film
Geoff King, Geoff King
Page: 304
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781501385735
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film

Download ebooks in pdf The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film 9781501385735 by Geoff King, Geoff King

How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences – or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome – The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a sustained manner. Cinema of this kind confronts us with material such as distinctly uncomfortable sexual encounters. It invites us into uncertain relationships with awkward and sometimes unlikable characters. It presents us with challenging behaviour or what are presented as uncomfortable realities. It often refuses information on which to base judgments. More discomfortingly, cinema of this kind tends to provoke uncertainty at the level of what emotional responses we are encouraged to have towards difficult, sometimes controversial, characters or events.

The Cinema of Discomfort examines a number of case-studies, including Palindromes by Todd Solondz (US) and Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece), along with other examples from Austria, Sweden, the UK, the US and Germany. Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film.

Cinema of Discomfort : Disquieting, Awkward and
        
        The Cinema of Discomfort by Geoff King - 9781501359309
        
        The Cinema of Discomfort by Geoff King
        
        The Cinema of Discomfort - By: Geoff King
        
        The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and
        
        The Cinema of Discomfort : Disquieting, Awkward and
        
        The Cinema of Discomfort: Disquieting, Awkward and
        
        Geoff King: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

Items