Limit Cinema : Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film

Georges Bataille and puts forward a new reading of his notion of transgression in the context of our current environmental crisis. To that end, "Limit Cinema" brings Bataille into conversation with more recent discussions in the humanities that seek less anthropocentric modes of thought, including posthumanism, speculative realism, and other theories associated with the nonhuman turn. The problems at stake are global in scale, and the book therefore engages with cinema from a range of national and cultural contexts. From Ben Wheatley's psychological thrillers to Nettie Wild's eco-documentaries, limit cinema pushes against the boundaries of thought and encourages an ethical engagement with perspectives beyond the human. [Publisher's Text]

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