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Overview"Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as provocateur, as well as to his films' techniques, topics, and storytelling. Where others accuse von Trier of being clichéd, the editors argue that he intensifies the ""clichés of our times"" in ways that direct our political energies towards apprehending and repairing a shattered world.The book is certainly for von Trier lovers and haters but, at the same time, political, critical, and feminist theorists entirely unfamiliar with von Trier's films will find this volume's essays of interest. Most of the contributors tarry with von Trier to develop new readings of major thinkers and writers, including Agamben, Bataille, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Deleuze, Euripides, Freud, Kierkegaard, Ranciére, Nietzsche, Winnicott, and many more. Von Trier is both central and irrelevant to much of this work. Writing from the fields of classics, literature, gender studies, philosophy, film and political theory, the authors stage an interdisciplinary intervention in film studies." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bonnie Honig (Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University) , Lori J. Marso (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Union College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 25.70cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 18.50cm Weight: 1.057kg ISBN: 9780190600181ISBN 10: 0190600187 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 17 November 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Preface by Davide Panagia Acknowledgments About the Contributors INTRODUCTION Lars von Trier and the 'Clichés of Our Times' Bonnie Honig and Lori J. Marso I. ANTI-SEMITE/JEW VON TRIER Tony Cokes (Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room) 1. An Invitation from Lars von Trier - Transcript of the First TV interview since the Cannes Press Conference, with Martin Krasnik, Danish journalist. Translated by Troels Skadhauge and Lars Tønder II. WOMAN/NYMPH 2. Must We Burn Lars von Trier? Simone de Beauvoir's Body Politics in Antichrist Lori J. Marso 3. The Suffering Spectator? Perversion and Complicity in Antichrist and Nymphomaniac Rosalind Galt 4. The Nymph Shoots Back: Agamben and the Feel of the Agon Lynne Huffer III. FATE/MARTYR 5. Sharing in What Death Reveals: Breaking the Waves with Bataille Stephen S. Bush 6. Broken by God: Fate and Divine Intervention in Breaking the Waves James Martel IV. YOUNG AMERICANS 7. Blind Spots and Double Vision: National and Individual Fantasy in Dancer in the Dark Victoria Wohl 8. ""Young Americans"": Ranciére and Bowie in Dogville Paul Apostilidis 9. Three Emancipations: Manderlay and Racialized Freedom Elisabeth R. Anker 10. Face Value: von Trier, Bowie, Kanye (Notes on a review and three rants) Tony Cokes KANYE Tony Cokes (Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room) V. EUROPE/EVIL BOWIE Tony Cokes (Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room) 11. ""At the Fringes of One's Consciousness"": Kierkegaard, The Idiots, and the Politics of Comic Rule Following Lars Tønder 12. A Philopoetic Engagement: Deleuze and The Element of Crime Michael J. Shapiro 13. Evils of Representation in Europa and Melancholia Joshua Foa Dienstag VI. THINKING/MELANCHOLIA 14. Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Melancholia as Thought Experiment Thomas Elsaesser 15. ""I know what has to happen"": Tragedy, Mourning, and Melancholia in Lars von Trier's Medea Miriam Leonard 16. Out Like a Lion: Melancholia with Euripides and Winnicott Bonnie Honig 17. The Gravity of Melancholia: A Critique of Speculative Realism Christopher Peterson 18. Melancholia and Us William E. Connolly Index"ReviewsWhos afraid of controversial arguments? Certainly not the authors of this collection of essays. Without ever looking for the easy way out, they face all the challenges of one of the most provocative contemporary filmmakers. In one word: in front of his films, they think. Peter Szendy, author of Apocalypse-Cinema This remarkable and surprising volume claims Lars von Trier for feminist philosophy and a reparative world practice by turning his exasperating provocations into useful invitations for serious (as well as seriously comic) political thought. Pushing beyond the reflexive, liberal-humanist outrage that too often stunts engagements with von Triers oeuvre, the authors put him in conversation with such figures as Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, Giorgio Agamben, Davie Bowie, and Soren Kierkegaard and in the context of tragic and queer theory. Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier finds in his brutal narratives, aesthetic cliches, and seemingly barbarous scenarios the possibility for emancipatory politics. From this volume we learn not only a great deal about von Trier; we also learn how to think about freedom more radically through his compelling example. Jennifer Fay, author of Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany Lars von Trier is one of the worlds most provocative and divisive film-makers around. This book of essays faces squarely the challengeviolent misogyny or searing critique of patriarchy? Pornography and violence or exposure of the cliches of power and desire?and provides a range of brilliant and poised discussions of these extraordinary and dangerous movies. Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge This exciting collection is fundamentally a gamble. Instead of repudiating Lars von Triers use of cliche and provocation, the contributors double down on the most controversial, problematic, and seemingly intractable figures in his corpus: the Woman, the Sacrifice, the Earth, Evil. Wresting his films from tired evaluations and defensive posture, the essays here approach these tropes and things with due seriousness to show how their intensification in von Triers works constitutes a mode of speculative potential, one that situates the cliche at the ground of cinematic experiment, the cinematic at the heart of political thinking, andmost boldlyvon Trier at the center of feminist theory. Eugenie Brinkema, author of The Forms of the Affects Author InformationBonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Lori J. Marso is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies and Professor of Political Science at Union College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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