Over his four-decade long career, Abel Ferrara has built himself a reputation as one of the most audacious and unconventional filmmakers in contemporary cinema. After his beginnings in the exploitation circuit of the late 1970s he become one of the central figures in the indie wave of the 1980s and 90s and is now an established arthouse director whose versatile oeuvre crosses the boundaries of cult, independent and Hollywood cinema.

ReFocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara offers a comprehensive critical survey of the director’s work. The volume brings together a broad range of methodological, theoretical, historical and philosophical perspectives on Ferrara’s work, and case studies include Ms 45, The Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini and Welcome to New York.

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Florian Zappe is a Berlin-based scholar and academic who works in interdisciplinary borderland between literary studies, cultural studies and philosophy. He is the author of books on Kathy Acker (Das Zwischen schreiben―Transgression und avantgardistisches Erbe bei Kathy Acker, 2013) and William S. Burroughs (‘Control Machines’ und ‘Dispositive’―Eine foucaultsche Analyse der Machtstrukturen im Romanwerk von William S. Burroughs zwischen 1959 und 1968, 2008), as well as the co-editor of the essay collections The American Weird: Concept and Medium (2020), Surveillance | Society | Culture (2020) and Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (2019). In addition to that, he has published widely on literary and visual culture.

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