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 cliched, the
editors argue that he intensifies the "cliches 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, Ranciere, 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.
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