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Hardback. A perceptive analysis of the daring Danish filmmaker's oeuvre Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 216 pages, 24 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies they narrowly miss becoming. Challenging conventional limitations and imposing his own rules, he restlessly reinvents the film language. The Danish director has therefore cultivated an insistently transnational cinema, taking inspiration from sources that range from the European avant-garde to American genre films. This volume provides a stimulating overview of Trier's career while focusing on the more recent work, including his ... Read more
Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies they narrowly miss becoming. Challenging conventional limitations and imposing his own rules, he restlessly reinvents the film language. The Danish director has therefore cultivated an insistently transnational cinema, taking inspiration from sources that range from the European avant-garde to American genre films. This volume provides a stimulating overview of Trier's career while focusing on the more recent work, including his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035913
SKU
V9780252035913
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About Linda Badley
Linda Badley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic and Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker and the coeditor of Traditions in World Cinema.
Reviews for Lars von Trier
"A thoughtful, thorough, and crisply written study of Lars von Trier's feature film production. Linda Badley deftly combines criticism on von Trier's films with close reading, historical analysis, genre theory, gender studies, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies."
Andrew Nestingen, author of Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change "Written with great energy, passion, generosity, and insight, Lars von Trier ... Read more
Andrew Nestingen, author of Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change "Written with great energy, passion, generosity, and insight, Lars von Trier ... Read more