Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex a**

Edinburgh University Press

Transgressive Art FilmsExtremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence\nAuthor(s): Oliver Kenny\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474483933, 978-1474483933\nSynopsis\nTransgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. This book provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films of the past twenty-five years. \nThe term transgressive art film designates the phenomenon of a small number of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinema art world as part of an expansion of the definition of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural ph.