The cinema of discomfort : disquieting, awkward and uncomfortable experiences in contemporary art and indie film / Geoff King.

• Into the discomfort zone -- 'Uncomfortably great': Todd Solondz and Palindromes -- Ulrich Seidl: far from paradise -- Weirdly discomforting: Dogtooth and the Greek new wave -- Forces majeure and minor: from existential alienation to personal obligation in the films of Roy Andersson and Ruben Östlund -- A very English discomfort: Joanna Hogg -- The comedy of discomfort: Towards a conclusion.

• "How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences - or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome - The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a sustained manner. Cinema of this kind confronts us with material such as distinctly uncomfortable sexual encounters. It invites us into uncertain relationships with awkward and sometimes unlikable characters. It presents us with challenging behaviour or what are presented as uncomfortable realities. It often refuses information on which to base judgments. More discomfortingly, cinema of this kind tends to provoke uncertainty at the level of what emotional responses were are encouraged to have towards difficult, sometimes controversial, characters or events. The Cinema of Discomfort examines a number of case-studies, including Palindromes by Todd Solondz (US) and Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece). Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film"-- 

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Filmpublik  (sao)

Filmpsykologi  (sao)

Discomfort in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Motion picture audiences.  (LCSH)

Independent films  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Experimental films  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- Psychological aspects. (LCSH)

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Filmpsykologi  (sfit)

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Experimentfilm  -- historia (sao)

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Psychological effects of films

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