New French Extremity + Influences

“(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes – The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth”

- Jacques Ellul

French New Extremity, according to James Quandt:
“Bava as much as Bataille, Salo no less than Sade seem the determinants of a cinema suddenly determined to break...