Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
Contents:
Transgression and distinction: filmmaker discourses -- The aesthetic embrace and the cynicism criticism: reception discourses -- The rhetoric and role of film festivals -- Discourses and modes of distribution -- The interpretations of regulation -- The added value of international distribution -- Sex, violence, and self-exoticization -- Aesthetic innovation and the real: academic debate over sexually graphic art films -- A discursive approach to hardcore art cinema -- Afterword.
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