Author : Nicole Brenez
Release : 2006-12-20
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Abel Ferrara by : Nicole Brenez
Download or read book Abel Ferrara written by Nicole Brenez. This book was released on 2006-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives).