{"product_id":"transgressive-art-films-oliver-kenny-9781474483940","title":"Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransgressive Art Films\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eThe 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 phenomenon and a central plank of cinema's need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames, through the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, \u003ci\u003eTransgressive Art Films\u003c\/i\u003e details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being ignored or forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Kenny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474483941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474483940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d","brand":"Oliver Kenny","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458591535359,"sku":"9781474483940","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f1ebda4-4639-4865-ab6b-728ddf401228.jpg?v=1777405374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transgressive-art-films-oliver-kenny-9781474483940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}