Lars von Trier's Women
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Lars von Trier's Women

  1. 272 pages
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Lars von Trier's Women

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents 
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: The feminine act and the question of woman in Lars von Trier’s films Rex Butler and David Denny
  5. 1 Performing the feminine Linda Badley
  6. 2 Femininity between Goodness and Act Slavoj Žižek
  7. 3 Listening to Dancer in the Dark: Singing as recalling the world Ulrike Hanstein
  8. 4 A woman’s smile Rex Butler
  9. 5 Female fight club: Lars von Trier’s women and the paradox of Being Sheila Kunkle
  10. 6 Cruelty and the real: The female figure in Orchidégartneren, Menthe – la bienheureuse and Befrielsesbilleder Angelos Koutsourakis
  11. 7 What is the gift of Grace? On Dogville Lorenzo Chiesa
  12. 8 Manderlay: The gift, Grace’s desire and the collapse of ideology Ahmed Elbeshlawy
  13. 9 Violent affects: Nature and the feminine in Antichrist Magdalena Zolkos
  14. 10 A postmodern family romance: Antichrist David Denny
  15. 11 Not melancholic enough: Triumph of the feminine in Melancholia Todd McGowan
  16. 12 How to face nothing: Melancholia and the feminine Jennifer Friedlander
  17. 13 Lars von Trier’s fantasy of femininity in Nymphomaniac Hilary Neroni
  18. 14 Mea maxima vulva: Appreciation and aesthetics of chance in Nymphomaniac Tarja Laine
  19. List of contributors
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Copyright