The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe : Rape, Art, (S)Exploitation

Batori, Anna

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474448338
• DDC分類 791.430947

Full Description

The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe examines extreme, transgressive cinema which developed following a post-2000 wave in filmmaking that aestheticised violence on audio-visual, narrative and thematic levels.
Batori investigates the ways in which contemporary national trends from within Eastern Europe correspond to the global stream of transgressive filmmaking and shock aesthetics that have become the dominant markers of world cinema. Do these art productions intend to reveal and criticise aggressions in domestic landscapes or are they part of a contemporary global visual discourse? With a specific focus on gender, this book highlights both nation-specific features of these films and their relationship to global extreme art films.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgment

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Cradle of Eastern Extremism: Sexual Oppression and the Yugoslav Black Wave
Chapter 2. The Political Transition and the Extreme: Cinema of Castration
Chapter 3. Post-Socialist Animality: Towards an (Eastern European) Extreme Cinema
Chapter 4. Eastern Extreme Cinema: (S)exploitation and Animal Death
Chapter 5. Post-War Extremism: Subversive Serbia
Chapter 6. Towards Contemporary Extreme Forms of Double Colonialism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Notes