Lars von Trier's Women
The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic self-abnegation, as with Bess in Breaking the Waves, 'She' in Antichrist and Joe in Nymphomaniac. At other times, it is the women in his films who are dominant or break out in violence, as in his adaptation of Euripides' Medea, the conclusion of Dogville and perhaps throughout Nymphomaniac. Lars von Trier's Women confronts these dichotomies he…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Denny, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5013-2246-4
- EAN: 9781501322464
- Produktnummer: 29845585
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'877 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999), Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory (2005), Borges' Short Stories (2010), The Zizek Dictionary (2014), and Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? (2015). He has written for Film-Philosophy, contributed essays to a number of collections on cinema, and edited two volumes of Zizek's writings (Interrogating the Real, 2005; The Universal Exception, 2006).David Denny is Associate Professor and current Chair of the Department of Culture and Media at Marylhurst University, USA. He teaches and does research on the intersection of critical theory, psychoanalysis, film and politics. He has published Signifying Grace: On Dogville in The International Journal of Zizek Studies, The Politics of Enjoyment: On The Hurt Locker in Theory and Event, and Melancholia: An Alternative to the End of the World in the collected volume Cinematic Cuts (2016).
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