Abel Ferrara (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Nicole Brenez
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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 show more visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives). show lessTags
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Nicole Brenez, prominent film critic and curator for the experimental cinema programs at the Cinematheque francaise in Paris, teaches cinema studies at Universite Paris l/Pantheon-Sorbonne
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- 791.4302 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions
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- PN1998.3 .F465 .B7413 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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