Anna Batori: The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe: Rape, Art, (S)Exploitation
Edinburgh University Press. 2024. 188p.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2025.00020.384Keywords:
extreme cinema, (s)exploitation films, violence, sex, rape, taboo, colonialism, Eastern Europe, (self)Balkanization, gender, body, animal violenceAbstract
Anna Batori’s The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe: Rape, Art, (S)Exploitation offers a provocative examination of Eastern European films that merge graphic violence, sexual exploitation, and arthouse aesthetics. Through a postcolonial lens, Batori explores how these films reflect lingering socialist trauma, gender politics, and the region's self-colonising tendencies. The monograph challenges the conflation of extreme cinema with artistic merit, arguing that many such films exploit taboo imagery for sensationalism rather than subversion.
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