Unpleasant Movies Readinglist

1.
The Feel-Bad Film
The Feel-Bad Film really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
2.
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
3.
Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema
Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
4.
Film and the Ethical Imagination
Film and the Ethical Imagination 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
5.
Unwatchable
Unwatchable 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
6.
Public Rape
Public Rape 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
7.
Offensive Films
Offensive Films 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
8.
Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike
Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike
by: Tom Mes
4.07 avg rating — 204 ratings
9.
Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike
Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike
by: Tom Mes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
10.
Eros in Hell: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema
Eros in Hell: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema 4.10 avg rating — 80 ratings
11.
Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema
Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema 3.86 avg rating — 121 ratings
12.
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images 3.89 avg rating — 316 ratings
13.
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating — 418,879 ratings
14.
Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis
Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
15.
Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film (Approaches to Semiotics [AS], 66)
Point of View in the Cinema: A Theory of Narration and Subjectivity in Classical Film (Approaches to Semiotics [AS], 66) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
16.
In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today
In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today 4.26 avg rating — 105 ratings
17.
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" 4.12 avg rating — 3,684 ratings
18.
Regarding the Pain of Others
Regarding the Pain of Others 4.10 avg rating — 20,926 ratings
19.
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
20.
The Cinema of Cruelty: From Buñuel to Hitchcock
The Cinema of Cruelty: From Buñuel to Hitchcock 3.94 avg rating — 131 ratings
21.
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection 4.07 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
22.
Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression
Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
23.
Ethics and Images of Pain
Ethics and Images of Pain 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
24.
Film as a Subversive Art
Film as a Subversive Art 4.30 avg rating — 699 ratings
25.
Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture
Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
26.
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
27.
Ugly Feelings
Ugly Feelings 4.19 avg rating — 443 ratings
28.
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship 4.15 avg rating — 587 ratings
29.
Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image
Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
30.
Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture
Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
31.
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis 4.09 avg rating — 1,038 ratings