Table of Contents

Introduction; PART ONE: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTS; 1. Punk Cinema; 2. Italian Neorealist Influences; 3. The French New Wave: New Again; 4. Sincerity and Irony; PART TWO: SCREENING POST-PUNK CINEMA; 5. DVD and the New Cinema of Complexity; 6. Digital Technologies and the Poetics of Performance; 7. Navigating Chaos; 8. Non-Linear Narrative; 9. Making It Real; PART THREE: CASE STUDIES; 10. Dogma brothers: Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg; 11. Mike Figgis: Time Code and the Screen; 12. What Was the Neo-Underground and What Wasn't: A First Reconsider of Harmony Korine; 13. Repo Man: Reclaiming the Spirit of Punk with Alex Cox.

About the Author

Nicholas Rombes is an associate Professor of English at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he co-founded the Electronic Critique Program.

Reviews

...[T]he films in New Punk Cinema...ultimately deserve the attention of this important collection and future critical work.--Claire Perkins"Senses of Cinema" (01/01/0001)

., ."[T]he films in New Punk Cinema...ultimately deserve the attention of this important collection and future critical work." -- Claire Perkins, "Senses of Cinema", 3/1/2006