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OverviewThis is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars von Trier identifies recurring formal elements in von Trier’s oeuvre and discusses the formal complexity of his films under the rubric of the post-Brechtian. Through an in depth formal analysis, the book shows that Brecht is more important to von Trier’s work than most critics acknowledge and deems von Trier a dialectical filmmaker. This study draws on many untranslated resources and features interviews with Lars von Trier and his mentor, the great Danish director Jørgen Leth. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Angelos Koutsourakis (University of Leeds, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9781623563455ISBN 10: 1623563453 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 19 December 2013 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Notes to the Text Foreword: Looking Back 1. From Brechtian to Post-Brechtian Cinema. Lars von Trier and the Post-Brechtian Brecht on the Film Medium Brecht's Critique of the Institution of Cinema What is Post-Brechtian Cinema? Locating von Trier in the post-Brechtian Challenging the Cinematic Institution Artaudian Cruelty as Verfremdungseffekt 2. Historical Fragments in the Europa Trilogy Europe is Painful Beyond the Fabel Audiovisual Plenitude: the Individual in Crisis Dialectical Images Literalization of the Medium: the Essay as Form History as Transition On Film Voyeurism 3. The Primacy of the Apparatus Back to the 1970s? Dogme 95 Realism and Anti-Illusionism Technology and Productivity The Idiots: Performant Function and Performative Camera Interrupting the Narrative Performance as Form Characters as Bodily Effects Performing out of Character Reflections on the Primacy of the Apparatus: Post-Dogme Developments, Rules and Automavision 4. Dogville and Manderlay: Experimentation and Dialectical Negations Representation as an Experiment Experimentation as Pedagogy Theatricality: Attitudes in Space Performative Contradictions Narrative Openness as Negative Dialectics Epilogue: Dialogue with the 'Dissensual' Past Appendix: Interview with Lars von Trier Interview with Jorgen Leth Manifestos Filmography and Bibliography IndexReviewsFrom Brechtian to Post-Brechtian: Koutsourakis moves beyond the mere allegorical readings of the films' content and challenges the simplistic dichotomies that traditionally [restricted] von Trier's Brechtianism [...] Unlike other books on von Trier ... this richly illustrated study pushes the analysis to reveal von Trier's multiple connections with the avante-garde and Italian Neo-Realism, also including interviews with the director and his mentor Jorgen Leth. -- Sara Morino, University of Westminster, UK Cinema Journal Koutsourakis's study succeeds in two ways. It identifies the political dimension of Brecht's artistic practice not in his Marxist ideology or modernist devices but in his aesthetics of negation. Second, it positions von Trier in this tradition as a post-Brechtian filmmaker whose experimental and irritating productions - like Brecht's - politicize the audience's perception of history and the present through their formal properties of radical negation. Unlike many books on von Trier, this richly illustrated study, including interviews and relevant documents, pushes far beyond the biographical into the media and representational aesthetics that distinguish this body of challenging films. -- Marc Silberman, Professor, Department of German, and Director, Director, Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US In his book, Angelos Kousourakis takes a new and innovative look at the cinema of Lars von Trier. Using Bertolt Brecht's theories as a key, he analyses the political and ideological aspects of Lars von Trier's oeuvre with sharp intellectual energy. In Koutsourakis's reading, Trier's radicalism is made visible: Lars von Trier as a revolutionary! -- Peter Schepelern, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Angelos Koutsourakis's stimulating and thought-provoking monograph on Lars von Trier presents the Danish director as a political filmmaker in the Brechtian tradition. In addition to offering a sophisticated and stimulating analysis of the political aspects of Lars von Trier's films, the monograph also has a number of other qualities that make it an essential read for anyone interested in Lars von Trier. It revalorises von Trier's early films and discusses a number of his lesser-known projects (such as the unfinished, and now aborted, Dimension project); it introduces material to which only Danish readers have previously had access, and it includes Koutsourakis's own interviews with Lars von Trier and J rgen Leth. Finally, like Bainbridge, Koutsourakis presents a number of von Trier's manifestos from 1984 to 2001, giving the reader a lot of material to engage with -dialectically or not. -- Nikolaj Lubecker New Review of Film and Television Studies Koutsourakis's study succeeds in two ways. It identifies the political dimension of Brecht's artistic practice not in his Marxist ideology or modernist devices but in his aesthetics of negation. Second, it positions von Trier in this tradition as a post-Brechtian filmmaker whose experimental and irritating productions - like Brecht's - politicize the audience's perception of history and the present through their formal properties of radical negation. Unlike many books on von Trier, this richly illustrated study, including interviews and relevant documents, pushes far beyond the biographical into the media and representational aesthetics that distinguish this body of challenging films. -- Marc Silberman, Professor, Department of German, and Director, Director, Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US In his book, Angelos Kousourakis takes a new and innovative look at the cinema of Lars von Trier. Using Bertolt Brecht's theories as a key, he analyses the political and ideological aspects of Lars von Trier's oeuvre with sharp intellectual energy. In Koutsourakis's reading, Trier's radicalism is made visible: Lars von Trier as a revolutionary! -- Peter Schepelern, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Author InformationAngelos Koutsourakis is Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018) and the co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020) and of The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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