In this concise study, Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara's place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray. Rather than merely reworking genre film, Brenez understands Ferrara's oeuvre as formulating new archetypes that depict the evil of the modern world. Focusing as much on the human figure as on elements of storytelling, she argues that films such as "Bad Lieutenant" express this evil through visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behaviour, morality, images, and narratives).
- ISBN10 0252031547
- ISBN13 9780252031540
- Publish Date 20 December 2006 (first published 1 January 2006)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English