The disturbing and intense films of Lars von Trier are often dismissed as misogynist, misanthropic, or anti-humanist. This book, however, invites us to engage with his work to found a new feminist vision and discover what might be distinctively hopeful for the future of our fragile human condition.
The disturbing and intense films of Lars von Trier are often dismissed as misogynist, misanthropic, or anti-humanist. This book, however, invites us to engage with his work to found a new feminist vision and discover what might be distinctively hopeful for the future of our fragile human condition.
Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Lori J. Marso is Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Union College.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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