Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Bordun, Troy Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): Panagia, Davide, Degree committee member (dgc): McLachlan, Ian, Degree committee member (dgc): Stavro, Elaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This dissertation re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined extreme cinema. It argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand our generic classifications and, through the re-organization of the visual presentation of genre-specific clichés and devices, their… more Full Text: Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Trent University Peterborough, Ontario, …