Chapter 11 ‘Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies’: The Scandal of Baise-moi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema 18
6. Part 1 French Cinema and the New Extremism
7. Chapter 3 The Wounded Screen 29
8. Chapter 4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism 43
9. Chapter 5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism 55
10. Part II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism
11. Chapter 6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-men and Bare Life 69
12. Chapter 7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export 82
13. Chapter 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real 93
14. Chapter 9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape . . .: How Does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Mainstream Film Studies Approaches? 105
15. Chapter 10 Censorship, Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain 117
16. Chapter 11 ‘Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies’: The Scandal of Baise-moi 130
17. Chapter 12 ‘Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See’: Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson’s Films 142
18. Part IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism
19. Chapter 13 Lars von Trier’s Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film 157
20. Chapter 14 A ‘Passion for the Real’: Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold 169
21. Chapter 15 Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and Michael Haneke 180
22. Chapter 16 On the Unwatchable 192
23. Afterword
24. Chapter 17 More Moralism from that ‘Wordy Fuck’ 209
25. Notes on Contributors 214
26. Works Cited 218
27. Index 231