BackLars von Trier
(book in English)
by Linda Badley
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Director > Lars von Trier
- Lars Von Trier
- Publishing Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Collection
- Contemporary Film Directors
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 216 pages • 22 €
5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.5 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-0-252-07790-6
- User Ratings
(0 vote)Average rating:
0 rating 
= We can do without0 rating 
= Good book0 rating 
= Excellent book0 rating 
= Unique / a referenceYour rating: -
Book Presentation:
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.
See the publisher website: University of Illinois Press
> Books with the same or similar title:
Lars von Trier (1997)
Cannes 1996
by Gérard Pangon and Aurélien Ferenczi
Subject: Director > Lars von Trier
> On a related topic:
Melancholia de Lars von Trier (2019)
Une œuvre d'art totale ?
by Thomas Simon
Subject: One Film > Melancholia
Vers l'abstraction de l'image cinématogra-
phique (2018)
Quatre films de fiction d'Europe du Nord de 1978 à 2000
by Martine Baldacchino-Gauthey
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
by Lars von Trier
(in French and English)
Subject: One Film > Dancer in the Dark
Note: A book on a slightly gray background is a book that is no longer currently published or that may be difficult to find in bookstores. The shown price is that of the book at its release, the price on the second-hand market may be very different.
A book on a beige background is a book published in a language other than French.