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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.
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Cover
Title page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Making the Waves: Cinema as Performance
Prescient Affects: The Student Films
Hypnotic Virtuosity: The Europe Trilogy
Subverting the Kingdom: Television
Performing the Feminine: Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark
(Up)staging the American Dream: The USA Trilogy (Minus One)
Comedy, Automavision, and The Boss of It All
Theatre of Cruelty: Antichrist (An Epilogue)
Interview, September 2006
Interview, October 2007
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
| "A thoughtful, thorough, and crisply written study of Lars von Trier's feature film production. Linda Badley deftly combines criticism on von Trier's films with close reading, historical analysis, genre theory, gender studies, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies."—Andrew Nestingen, author of Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change
"Written with great energy, passion, generosity, and insight, Lars von Trier offers a compelling account of the films and practices of one of Denmark's most acclaimed directors. With its references to a larger 9/11 context, the discussion of the director's controversial 'American' films is particularly thought provoking."—Mette Hjort, chair and professor of visual studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
| Linda Badley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic and Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker and the coeditor of Traditions in World Cinema.
"Written with great energy, passion, generosity, and insight, Lars von Trier offers a compelling account of the films and practices of one of Denmark's most acclaimed directors. With its references to a larger 9/11 context, the discussion of the director's controversial 'American' films is particularly thought provoking."—Mette Hjort, chair and professor of visual studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
| Linda Badley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic and Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker and the coeditor of Traditions in World Cinema.