The Grace of Destruction - A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas - Elena (University of Alberta del Rio

For Elena del Río, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence. Drawing inspiration from Deleuze''s ethics of immanence, Spinoza''s ethology of passions and Nietzsche''s typology of forces, The Grace of Destruction examines the affective extremities common in much of global, contemporary cinema..