| Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars Von Trier Contributor(s): Honig, Bonnie (Editor), Marso, Lori J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0190600179 ISBN-13: 9780190600174 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Individual Director - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2016006212 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 7" W x 10" (1.80 lbs) 470 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as provocateur, as well as to his films' techniques, topics, and storytelling. Where others accuse von Trier of being clichéd, the editors argue that he intensifies the clichés of our times in ways that direct our political energies towards apprehending and repairing a shattered world. The book is certainly for von Trier lovers and haters but, at the same time, political, critical, and feminist theorists entirely unfamiliar with von Trier's films will find this volume's essays of interest. Most of the contributors tarry with von Trier to develop new readings of major thinkers and writers, including Agamben, Bataille, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Deleuze, Euripides, Freud, Kierkegaard, Ranciére, Nietzsche, Winnicott, and many more. Von Trier is both central and irrelevant to much of this work. Writing from the fields of classics, literature, gender studies, philosophy, film and political theory, the authors stage an interdisciplinary intervention in film studies. |