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Abel Ferrara / Nicole Brenez ; translated from the French by Adrian Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brenez, Nicole, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary film directors.
- Contemporary film directors
- Standardized Title:
- Abel Ferrara. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ferrara, Abel, 1951---Criticism and interpretation.
- Ferrara, Abel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Cinema of Negation
- Some Ethical Stakes in Ferrara's Cinema
- What Is Passion? Central Figures of Hypermorality
- "Going to the End of Being"
- Self-Consciousness: The Visionaries
- Cinema and Symbolic Reparation
- An Interview with Abel Ferrara
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Filmography: p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-197) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252096198
- 0252096193
- OCLC:
- 884725925
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