Elena del Río is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays have been featured in journals such as Camera Obscura, Discourse, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film-Philosophy, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, SubStance, and Deleuze Studies. She has also contributed essays to edited collections on the films of Atom Egoyan, Rainer W. Fassbinder, and on the philosophy of film, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (2008).

Del Río’s Grace of Destruction… [continues] to invigorate the conversation surrounding the new extreme cinema while also expanding the applicability of its terms in productive and challenging ways that particularly encourage us to consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications that only the extreme encounter can engender.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Violence to Forces: Extreme Cinemas as Ethological ExperimentationChapter 1: The Disease of MoralityChapter 2: Bare LifeChapter 3: Physics of Violence, Folds of PainChapter 4: Ethology of DeathChapter 5: ExtinctionBibliographyIndex

Elena del Río is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays have been featured in journals such as Camera Obscura, Discourse, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film-Philosophy, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, SubStance, and Deleuze Studies. She has also contributed essays to edited collections on the films of Atom Egoyan, Rainer W. Fassbinder, and on the philosophy of film, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (2008).

Del Río’s Grace of Destruction… [continues] to invigorate the conversation surrounding the new extreme cinema while also expanding the applicability of its terms in productive and challenging ways that particularly encourage us to consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications that only the extreme encounter can engender.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Violence to Forces: Extreme Cinemas as Ethological ExperimentationChapter 1: The Disease of MoralityChapter 2: Bare LifeChapter 3: Physics of Violence, Folds of PainChapter 4: Ethology of DeathChapter 5: ExtinctionBibliographyIndex

Elena del Río is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays have been featured in journals such as Camera Obscura, Discourse, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film-Philosophy, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, SubStance, and Deleuze Studies. She has also contributed essays to edited collections on the films of Atom Egoyan, Rainer W. Fassbinder, and on the philosophy of film, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (2008).

Del Río’s Grace of Destruction… [continues] to invigorate the conversation surrounding the new extreme cinema while also expanding the applicability of its terms in productive and challenging ways that particularly encourage us to consider the ethical and philosophical ramifications that only the extreme encounter can engender.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Violence to Forces: Extreme Cinemas as Ethological ExperimentationChapter 1: The Disease of MoralityChapter 2: Bare LifeChapter 3: Physics of Violence, Folds of PainChapter 4: Ethology of DeathChapter 5: ExtinctionBibliographyIndex