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A stimulating, wide-ranging survey of a controversial and confrontational field of new European cinema. Addressing a style of film that challenges both the viewer and a wide range of taboos, the collection questions the meanings and uses of 'extremity' and conveys the complexity and diversity of a cinema that is vital, troubling and above all, itself critical. -- Jonathan Romney, Film Critic, Independent on Sunday A stimulating, wide-ranging survey of a controversial and confrontational field of new European cinema. Addressing a style of film that challenges both the viewer and a wide range of taboos, the collection questions the meanings and uses of 'extremity' and conveys the complexity and diversity of a cinema that is vital, troubling and above all, itself critical.

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Tanya Horeck is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. She has published essays in a number of journals including Screen, New Formations and Women: A Cultural Review, and is the author of the book Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film (Routledge, 2004). Her research interests include film theory, representations of crime and violence, documentary theory and film, affect and spectatorship. Tina Kendall is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, where she is also Pathway Leader for the undergraduate Film Studies degree. Her research interests include theories of spectatorship, affect, and unpleasure, especially as these relate to contemporary European cinema. She has published on questions of stillness, intermediality, disgust, and the new materialism in film. She is currently preparing a monograph on the cinema of Bruno Dumont.

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