The Feel-Bad Film

by Nikolaj Lubecker and Nikolaj Lübecker

Book Overview

In recent years some of the best-known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in a position of intense discomfort: Feel-Bad Films. These films systematically manipulate the spectator: sometimes by withholding information from her, sometimes by shocking her, and sometimes by seducing her in order to further disturb her. As a result, they have been criticized for being amoral, nihilistic, politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748697993
• ISBN13: 9780748697991
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"