Lars Von Trier

Name: Lars Von Trier
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252077906
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ISBN: 9780252077906

by Linda Badley

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Contemporary Film Directors

ISBN-10 0252077903

ISBN-13 9780252077906

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 31st, 2011

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 296 grams

Dimensions 21.10 x 14.40 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Individual film directors, film-makers

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A perceptive analysis of the daring Danish filmmaker's oeuvre

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 controversial Gold Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, and Dancer in the Dark), the as-yet unfinished USA Trilogy (Dogville and Manderlay), and individual projects such as the comedy The Boss of It All and the incendiary horror psychodrama Antichrist. Closely analyzing the films and their contexts, Linda Badley draws on a range of cultural references and critical approaches, including genre, gender, and cultural studies, performance theory, and trauma culture. Two revealing interviews that Trier granted during crucial stages of Antichrist''s development are also included.

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