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Abel Ferrara / Nicole Brenez ; translated from the French by Adrian Martin.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.F465 B7413 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brenez, Nicole.
- Series:
- Contemporary film directors
- Standardized Title:
- Abel Ferrara. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ferrara, Abel, 1951---Criticism and interpretation.
- Ferrara, Abel.
- Ferrara, Abel, 1951-.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- In this concise study, Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara's place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray. Rather than merely reworking genre film, Brenez understands Ferrara's oeuvre as formulating new archetypes that depict the evil of the modern world. Focusing as much on the human figure as on elements of storytelling, she argues that films such as Bad Lieutenant express this evil through visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives).
- Contents:
- A Cinema of Negation 1
- Some Ethical Stakes in Ferrara's Cinema 1
- What Is Passion? Central Figures of Hypermorality 22
- "Going to the End of Being" 68
- Self-Consciousness: The Visionaries 110
- Cinema and Symbolic Reparation 150
- Interview: Abel Ferrara 165.
- Notes:
- Filmography: p. [173]-191.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252031547
- 0252074114
- OCLC:
- 65538445
- Publisher Number:
- 9780252031540
- 9780252074110
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