And so now, after the longest of waits, French film scholar and militant cinephile Nicole Brenez has finally had a book translated into English. For those of us who don’t read French, this is exciting news: Brenez’s rigorous engagement with what she calls the history of forms has until now only been available to us piecemeal, spattered across the hyperlinked pages of online film journals such as Rouge and Senses of Cinema. To suddenly find ourselves bequeathed with a full-length monograph—not to mention one that deals with one of the greatest and most criminally overlooked filmmakers of our times—should be cause for celebration in film departments everywhere. (That it probably won’t is another matter entirely.)
But one should be under no misapprehension that Brenez’s Abel Ferrara is actually about Abel Ferrara. Anchored though the book may be in the blood and guts of the filmmaker’s work, getting its hands dirty in the films as it breaks them open and looks inside, it is ultimately about far more than its title may at first suggest. This is a densely packed unpacking of the horrors of the twentieth century, and a systematic interrogation of how the cinema might deal with and figure this trauma at the level of the image.
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Australian Book Review, May 2007
