Abel Ferrara

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by Nicole Brenez

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Abel Ferrara

Keywords

Abel Ferrara

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Contemporary Film Directors

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 210 pages
6 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (16.5 x 21 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-252-07411-4
978-0-252-07411-0

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Book Presentation:
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 œuvre 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).

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