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OverviewOver his four-decade long career, Abel Ferrara has built himself a reputation as one of the most audacious and unconventional filmmakers in contemporary cinema. After his beginnings in the exploitation circuit of the late 1970s he become one of the central figures in the indie wave of the 1980s and 90s and is now an established arthouse director whose versatile oeuvre crosses the boundaries of cult, independent and Hollywood cinema. ReFocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara offers a comprehensive critical survey of the director's work. The volume brings together a broad range of methodological, theoretical, historical and philosophical perspectives on Ferrara's work, and case studies include Ms 45, The Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini and Welcome to New York. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Florian ZappePublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781399520096ISBN 10: 1399520091 Pages: 205 Publication Date: 31 December 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"From his pervasive engagement with a signature set of themes and tropes to the multifaceted nature of his own enigmatic public persona, this essential collection dives deep into the strangely captivating cinematic worlds of Abel Ferrara, one of the most complex and consistently fascinating filmmakers of the past half century.-- ""Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author 1000 Women in Horror (2020) and Ms. 45 (2017)""" "It's about time for Abel Ferrara to have received the 'ReFocus' treatment. Under the assured editorship of Florian Zappe, a diverse group of established and emerging scholars have done a brilliant job in scrutinising Ferrara's extensive filmography from a multitude of perspectives and making a strong argument about why he is one of the most important and interesting US filmmakers of the past 50 years!-- ""Yannis Tzioumakis, author of American Independent Cinema (2017)"" From his pervasive engagement with a signature set of themes and tropes to the multifaceted nature of his own enigmatic public persona, this essential collection dives deep into the strangely captivating cinematic worlds of Abel Ferrara, one of the most complex and consistently fascinating filmmakers of the past half century.-- ""Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author 1000 Women in Horror (2020) and Ms. 45 (2017)""" It's about time for Abel Ferrara to have received the 'ReFocus' treatment. Under the assured editorship of Florian Zappe, a diverse group of established and emerging scholars have done a brilliant job in scrutinising Ferrara's extensive filmography from a multitude of perspectives and making a strong argument about why he is one of the most important and interesting US filmmakers of the past 50 years!-- ""Yannis Tzioumakis, author of American Independent Cinema (2017)"" From his pervasive engagement with a signature set of themes and tropes to the multifaceted nature of his own enigmatic public persona, this essential collection dives deep into the strangely captivating cinematic worlds of Abel Ferrara, one of the most complex and consistently fascinating filmmakers of the past half century.-- ""Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author 1000 Women in Horror (2020) and Ms. 45 (2017)"" Author InformationFlorian Zappe is a Berlin-based scholar and academic who works in interdisciplinary borderland between literary studies, cultural studies and philosophy. He is the author of books on Kathy Acker (Das Zwischen schreiben--Transgression und avantgardistisches Erbe bei Kathy Acker, 2013) and William S. Burroughs ('Control Machines' und 'Dispositive'--Eine foucaultsche Analyse der Machtstrukturen im Romanwerk von William S. Burroughs zwischen 1959 und 1968, 2008), as well as the co-editor of the essay collections The American Weird: Concept and Medium (2020), Surveillance Society Culture (2020) and Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (2019). In addition to that, he has published widely on literary and visual culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |