About the Book:Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferraras place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray. Rather than merely reworking genre film, Brenez understands Ferraras oeuvre as formulating new archetypes that depict the evil of the modern world. Focusing as much on the human figure as on elements of storytelling, she argues that films such asBad Lieutenantexpress this evil through visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives).Table of Contents: 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 | 165Filmography | 173Bibliography | 193Index | 199