The Cinema of Discomfort : Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film

examines a number of case-studies, including "Palindromes "by Todd Solondz (US) and "Dogtooth "from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece), along with other examples from Austria, Sweden, the UK, the US and Germany. Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film. [Publisher's Text]

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