Nicolas Winding Refn and the violence of art : a critical study of the films / Justin Vicari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vicari, Justin, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refn, Nicolas Winding, 1970---Criticism and interpretation.

Refn, Nicolas Winding.

Refn, Nicolas Winding, 1970-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

Nicolas Winding Refn has emerged as a uniquely talented international filmmaker with an eye for visceral, iconic images. A 21st century mythmaker from his cult Pusher trilogy to the award-winning Drive and Only God Forgives, Refn infuses a sophisticated avant-garde sensibility with the grit of exploitation cinema. This book relates Refn's films to the ideas of Nietzsche, Canetti, Blanchot and others, and to aesthetic theory in general. It also asks why the West has become a largely artificial society, unable to generate new communal mythologies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Disorganizing principles

The Pusher trilogy

Bleeder

Fear X

Nemesis

Bronson

Valhalla rising

Drive

Only god forgives

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.

ISBN:

9780786471829

0786471824

OCLC:

862101977