Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema

About the Author ASBJØRN GRØNSTAD Film scholar and professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is founder and director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture Studies and a founding editor of the journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. He is author of Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008). Product Description Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.