List of Figures Notes on the Contributors 1. The Many Lives of a Filmmaker: Approaching Abel Ferrara Florian Zappe Part I: Art and Authorship 2. The Driller Killer : Artistic Precarity in the Downtown Scene Gillian McIver 3. Ferrara's Polarising Critical Reception: Clarity, Coherence, and Incongruity Matthew Cipa, Ted Nannicelli and Joel Fantini 4. Abel Ferrara, Film Genres and Independent Film: From Horror to Gangsters Vicente Rodríguez Ortega 5. Falling in Love Without Falling in Love: Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel Steven Shaviro 6. Gestures of Refusal: Abel Ferrara, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the Ethos of Authenticity Florian Zappe Part II: Sex and Gender 7. The Horny Auteur: Abel Ferrara's Pornographic Debut Joshua Heaps 8.

Embodied Critiques: Welcome to New York , Sexual Crimes, and Cinema's Unanswerability Todd Jurgess Part III: The Sacred and the Profane 9. "What Was She Doing on My Show?": Abel Ferrara's Mary Brad Stevens 10. The Italian American Provocateur: Catholicism, Women, and Sexual Violence in the Films of Abel Ferrara Margherita Sprio 11. Dionysian Acts, Apollonian Pacts: The Anti-Nietzschean Cinema of Abel Ferrara Amin Haidari Index.