Understanding Abel Ferrara as one of the most important and overlooked filmmakers of our time

Acknowledgments  |  xi

A CINEMA OF NEGATION  |  1
Some Ethical Stakes in Ferrara's Cinema   1
What Is Passion? Central Figures of Hypermorality   22
"Going to the End of Being"   68
Self-Consciousness: The Visionaries   110
Cinema and Symbolic Reparation   150

INTERVIEW: ABEL FERRARA  |  165
Filmography  |  173
Bibliography  |  193
Index  |  199

Nicole Brenez is a prominent film critic and curator for the experimental cinema programs at the Cinémathèque française in Paris. She teaches cinema studies at Université Paris 3 and is the author of Shadows de John Cassavetes and other books. Adrian Martin is an associate professor in film culture and theory at Monash University. His books include Mysteries of Cinema: Reflections on Film Theory, History and Culture 1982-2016.