Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the

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This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints o

Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that

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