Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. 1. The Many Lives of a Filmmaker: Approaching Abel Ferrara 1
6. Part I Art and Authorship
7. 2. The Driller Killer: Artistic Precarity in the Downtown Scene 15
8. 3. Ferrara’s Polarizing Critical Reception: Clarity, Coherence, and Incongruity 32
9. 4. Abel Ferrara, Film Genres, and Independent Film: From Horror to Gangsters 48
10. 5. Falling in Love Without Falling in Love: Abel Ferrara’s New Rose Hotel 61
11. 6. Gestures of Refusal: Abel Ferrara, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the Ethos of Authenticity 79
12. Part II Sex and Gender
13. 7. The Horny Auteur: Abel Ferrara’s Pornographic Debut 99
14. 8. Embodied Critiques: Welcome to New York, Sexual Crimes, and Cinema’s Unanswerability 109
15. Part III The Sacred and the Profane
16. 9. “What Was She Doing on My Show?”: Abel Ferrara’s Mary 129
17. 10. The Italian American Provocateur: Catholicism, Women, and Sexual Violence in the Films of Abel Ferrara 139
18. 11. Dionysian Acts, Apollonian Pacts: The Anti-Nietzschean Cinema of Abel Ferrara 155
19. Index 178