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Lars von Trier's Women (Paperback)
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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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