In this Book
- Abel Ferrara
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Contemporary Film Directors
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).
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- A Cinema of Negation
- “Going to the End of Being”
- pp. 68-110
- Self-Consciousness: The Visionaries
- pp. 110-150
- Cinema and Symbolic Reparation
- pp. 150-164
- An Interview with Abel Ferrara
- pp. 165-172
- Filmography
- pp. 173-192
- Bibliography
- pp. 193-198
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252096198
Related ISBN(s)
9780252031540, 9780252074110
MARC Record
OCLC
884725925
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006