Woman In Lars Von Trier S Cinema 1996 2014

Author : Ahmed Elbeshlawy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319406398

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Woman in Lars von Trier’s Cinema, 1996–2014 by Ahmed Elbeshlawy Pdf

This book discusses the figure of Woman in Lars von Trier’s distinctive cinematic productions from 1996 to 2014. It takes the notorious legacy of violence against women in von Trier’s cinema beyond the perceived gender division, elevating the director’s image above being a mere provocateur. By raising fundamental questions about woman, sexuality, and desire, Elbeshlawy shows that Trier’s cinematic Woman is an attempt at creating an image of a genderless subject that is not inhibited by the confines of ideology and culture. But this attempt is perennially ill-fated. And it is this failure that not only fosters viewing enjoyment but also gives the films their political importance, elevating them above both commendations and condemnations of feminist discourse.

Author : Rex Butler,David Denny
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501322464

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Lars von Trier's Women by Rex Butler,David Denny Pdf

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 head on. Editors Rex Butler and David Denny do not take a position either for or against von Trier, but rather consider how both attitudes fall short of the real difficulty of his films, which may simply not conform to any kind of feminist or indeed anti-feminist politics as they are currently configured. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and acknowledging the work of prior scholars on the films, Lars von Trier's Women reveals hidden resources for a renewed 'feminist' politics and social practice.

Author : Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474438070

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Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere by Anna Westerstahl Stenport Pdf

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics. Exploring both canonical works by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, as well as a wide range of unknown or overlooked narratives of movement, synthesis and resistance, the book offers a new model of inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage, and into small nation and pan-regional world cinemas.

Author : Rex Butler,David Denny
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501322471

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Lars von Trier's Women by Rex Butler,David Denny Pdf

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 head on. Editors Rex Butler and David Denny do not take a position either for or against von Trier, but rather consider how both attitudes fall short of the real difficulty of his films, which may simply not conform to any kind of feminist or indeed anti-feminist politics as they are currently configured. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and acknowledging the work of prior scholars on the films, Lars von Trier's Women reveals hidden resources for a renewed 'feminist' politics and social practice.

Author : Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788771846379

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Lars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014 by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen Pdf

Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged - and most controversial - film directors of our time, Trier's films often escape the representational production of meaning. In Lars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014. Signal, Pixel, Diagram scholar Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen offers a comprehensive discussion of Lars von Trier's collected works. Examining Trier's experiments with narrative forms, genre, camera usage, light, and colour tones, she shows how Trier's unique ethically involving style activates the viewer's entire perception apparatus. In understanding this affective involvement, the author frames the discussion around concepts from Gilles Deleuze, Alois Riegl, Brian Massumi and others on the haptic image, the diagram, affect and the signaletic material.

Author : Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000427820

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Lars von Trier's Cinema by Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran Pdf

This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier’s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeur’s symbols of evil, myth, and hermeneutics of revelation. The films of Lars von Trier are categorized as extreme cinema, inducing trauma and emotional rupture rarely paralleled, while challenging audiences to respond in new ways. This volume argues that the spiritual, biblical content of the films holds a key to understanding von Trier’s oeuvre of excess. Spiritual conflict is the mechanism that unpacks the films’ notorious excess with explosive, centrifugal force. By confronting the spectator with spiritual conflict through evil, von Trier's films truthfully and prophetically expose the spectator’s complicity in personal and structural evil, forcing self-examination through theological themes, analogous to the prophetic voice of the transgressive Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, his prophecy, and its form of delivery. Placed in context with the prophetic voices of Dante, Milton, Dostoyevsky, O’Connor, and Tarkovsky, this volume offers a theoretical framework beyond von Trier. It will be of great interest to scholars in Film Studies, Film and Philosophy, Film and Theology.

Author : Missy Molloy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474428743

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ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier by Missy Molloy Pdf

Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.

Author : Nick Lacey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137463869

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Introduction to Film by Nick Lacey Pdf

This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies. The rise of on demand internet-based video has transformed the way films are distributed and exhibited, with many previously unobtainable and obscure films becoming available for global audiences to view instantly. Interweaving historical and current theoretical approaches, Nick Lacey presents a tightly-focused and coherent overview of a discipline in transition, which can be read 'cover to cover' or in distinct chapters. With its original narrative line and student-oriented philosophy, the text greatly enriches student's appreciation of cinema, while equipping them with the essential skills and vocabulary to succeed in film studies. This is an ideal foundational text for all lecturers, undergraduate or A-level students of film and cinema studies, as well as enthusiasts of film and cinema looking for a comprehensive guide. New to this Edition: - Content reflecting the increasing importance of production contexts, in chapters focusing exclusively on the film business, distribution and exhibition - A more detailed chapter on representation and greater emphasis on audience - Updated content addressing the significance of transnational cinema, drawing on a more global, non-Hollywood range of film examples and case studies from Europe, Asia and Latin America - Text is broken up by a wider variety of film stills, representing world cinema from the classics to the latest in contemporary cinema

Author : Daniel S. Cutrara
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292754744

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Wicked Cinema by Daniel S. Cutrara Pdf

From struggles over identity politics in the 1990s to current concerns about a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, culture wars play a prominent role in the twenty-first century. Movies help to define and drive these conflicts by both reflecting and shaping cultural norms, as well as showing what violates those norms. In this pathfinding book, Daniel S. Cutrara employs queer theory, cultural studies, theological studies, and film studies to investigate how cinema represents and often denigrates religion and religious believers—an issue that has received little attention in film studies, despite the fact that faith in its varied manifestations is at the heart of so many cultural conflicts today. Wicked Cinema examines films from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, including Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Circle, Breaking the Waves, Closed Doors, Agnes of God, Priest, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Dogma. Central to all of the films is their protagonists’ struggles with sexual transgression and traditional belief systems within Christianity, Judaism, or Islam—a struggle, Cutrara argues, that positions believers as the Other and magnifies the abuses of religion while ignoring its positive aspects. Uncovering a hazardous web of ideological assumptions informed by patriarchy, the spirit/flesh dichotomy, and heteronormativity, Cutrara demonstrates that ultimately these films emphasize the “Otherness” of the faithful through a variety of strategies commonly used to denigrate the queer, from erasing their existence, to using feminization to make them appear weak, to presenting them as dangerous fanatics.

Author : Carol Siegel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253060259

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Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment by Carol Siegel Pdf

What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores how the media sexualize and racialize American Jews. Race and sexuality frequently intersect in the depiction of Jewish characters in such shows as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, UnREAL, The Expanse, and Breaking Bad, and in films such as Hester Street, Once Upon a Time in America, Casino, Radio Days, Inglourious Basterds, and Barton Fink. When they do, American sexual norms are invariably challenged or outright broken by these anti-Semitic representations of Jewishness. Insightful and provocative, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment disturbingly reveals the far-reaching influence of popular visual media in shaping how American Jews are perceived today.

Author : Marijke de Valck,Brendan Kredell,Skadi Loist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317267218

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Film Festivals by Marijke de Valck,Brendan Kredell,Skadi Loist Pdf

The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the space of a few short years. Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice represents a major addition to the literature on this topic, offering an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the area. With a combination of chapters specifically examining history, theory, method and practice, it offers a clear structure and systematic approach for the study of film festivals. Offering a collection of essays written by an international range of established scholars, it discusses well-known film festivals in Europe, North America and Asia, but equally devotes attention to the diverse range of smaller and/or specialized events that take place around the globe. It provides essential knowledge on the origin and development of film festivals, discusses the use of theory to study festivals, explores the methods of ethnographic and archival research, and looks closely at the professional practice of programming and film funding. Each section, moreover, is introduced by the editors, and all chapters include useful suggestions for further reading. This will be an essential textbook for students studying film festivals as part of their film, media and cultural studies courses, as well as a strong research tool for scholars that wish to familiarize themselves with this burgeoning field.

Author : Meredith E. Safran
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474440868

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Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition by Meredith E. Safran Pdf

Analyses of Rancière's philosophy and its potential for understanding the conversation between contemporary politics and art cinema.

Author : Lori Jo Marso
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822372844

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Politics with Beauvoir by Lori Jo Marso Pdf

In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through Marso's notion of the encounter. Starting with Beauvoir's political encounters with several of her key contemporaries including Hannah Arendt, Robert Brasillach, Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, and Violette Leduc, Marso also moves beyond historical context to stage encounters between Beauvoir and others such as Chantal Akerman, Lars von Trier, Rahel Varnhagen, Alison Bechdel, the Marquis de Sade, and Margarethe von Trotta. From intimate to historical, always affective though often fraught and divisive, Beauvoir's encounters, Marso shows, exemplify freedom as a shared, relational, collective practice. Politics with Beauvoir gives us a new Beauvoir and a new way of thinking about politics—as embodied and coalitional.

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Kasper Bro Larsen,Outi Lehtipuu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783110686043

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The Nordic Bible by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Kasper Bro Larsen,Outi Lehtipuu Pdf

Author : Davina Quinlivan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748664740

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Place of Breath in Cinema by Davina Quinlivan Pdf

This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship.