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width: 5.5 in Item Weight: 11 Oz height: 0.7 in Item Length: 8.5 in Language: English Format: Trade Paperback Subject Area: Performing Arts Author: Linda Badley Item Height: 0.7 in Number of Pages: 216 Pages Subject: Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism Publication Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780252077906 Series: Contemporary Film Directors Ser. Item Width: 5.5 in Book Title: Lars von Trier Type: Textbook Publication Name: Lars Von Trier Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Lars von Trier, Paperback by Badley, Linda, Like New Used, Free shipping in t.... 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. Lars von Trier, Paperback by Badley, Linda, ISBN 0252077903, ISBN-13 9780252077906, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.