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Elena Del Río - The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas - 9781501303029 - V9781501303029
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The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas

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Description for The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas Hardback. "A Deleuzian study of the negative affects in extreme/violent cinemas as a form of ethological experimentation"-- Series: Thinking Cinema. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 548.
For Elena del Río, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence. Drawing inspiration from Deleuze’s ethics of immanence, Spinoza’s ethology of passions and Nietzsche’s typology of forces, The Grace of Destruction examines the affective extremities common in much of global, contemporary cinema from the affirmative perspective of vital forces and situations—extremities such as moral/religious oppression, biopolitical violence, the pain involved in gender relations, the event of death and planetary extinction. ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Condition
New
Series
Thinking Cinema
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501303029
SKU
V9781501303029
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About Elena Del Río
Elena del Río is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays have been featured in journals such as Camera Obscura, Discourse, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film-Philosophy, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, SubStance, and Deleuze Studies. She has also contributed essays to edited collections on the films of Atom Egoyan, Rainer ... Read more

Reviews for The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas
Del Río’s Grace of Destruction… [continues] to invigorate the conversation surrounding the new extreme cinema while also expanding the applicability of its terms in productive and challenging ways that particularly encourage us to consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications that only the extreme encounter can engender.
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
The exploration of how Deleuze’s ... Read more

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