THE GRACE OF DESTRUCTION
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- Author: ELENA DEL RIO
- ISBN: 9781501338212
- Availability: In Stock
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For Elena del Río, extreme cinema is
not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we
encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the
socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence.
Drawing inspiration from Deleuze's ethics of immanence, Spinoza's ethology of
passions and Nietzsche's typology of forces, The Grace of Destruction examines the affective extremities common in much of global,
contemporary cinema from the affirmative perspective of vital forces and
situations-extremities such as moral/religious oppression, biopolitical
violence, the pain involved in gender relations, the event of death and
planetary extinction.
Her analysis diverges from the current literature
on extreme cinema through its selection of films, which include key
international examples, and through its foregrounding of relational, affective
politics over representations of sexuality and graphic violence. Detailed
formal and philosophical analyses of films like The White Ribbon, Dogville, Code Unknown,
Battle in Heaven, Sonatine, Fireworks, Dolls, Takeshis', Inland Empire and Melancholia are meant to move us away from the moral appraisal of
violence and destruction, and to compose an ethological philosophy of cinema
based on Deleuze's idea that, “when truth and judgment crumble, there remain
bodies, which are… nothing but forces.”