In this concise study, 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 behaviour, morality, images, and narratives).
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"Brenez does the best job to date in defending an underappreciated American director not only in terms of aesthetics, but also for his ethical reflections on the crimes and abuses of the past century. A truly remarkable achievement." Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Understanding Abel Ferrara as one of the most important and overlooked filmmakers of our time
In this concise study, 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).
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The Addiction, King of New York, New Rose Hotel, The Driller Killer, Dangerous Game, The Funeral, Fear City, Abel Ferrara, Dangerous Gaine, Frank White, Star Is Born, China Girl, Vietnam War, Zoë Lund, Nana Miami, Walter Benjamin, Dennis Hopper, Cinema of Negation, Santo Domingo, American Condition, Christopher Walken, Georges Bataille, Nicole Brenez, Orson Welles, Selected Writings New!
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- Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel on page 159, page 160, and page 161
- Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille on page 158, page 159, and page 160
- Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision (Directors S.) by Brad Stevens on page 5, page 157, and Back Matter
- Inner Experience (SUNY Series Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory) by Georges Bataille on page 159, and page 160
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov on page 156, and page 163
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- Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To "The Sopranos" by John McCarty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society by Nicole Rafter in Front Matter, and page 178
- Short Orders: Writings on Film (Essays) by Jonathan Romney on page 27, and Back Matter
- New Brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by Paul Gormley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- on page 293, and page 465
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