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Extreme cinema : the transgressive rhetoric of today's art film culture / Mattias Frey New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Call No: 722.71 FREAuthor: Frey, Mattias Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: ART CINEMA ; AESTHETICS ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; PORNOGRAPHY ; SEX IN FILMS ; HANEKE, MICHAEL ; VON TRIER, LARS Summary: "From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their schockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Film critics and scholars alike often regard these movies as the work of visionary auteurs, hailing directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as heirs to a tradition of transgressive art. In this provocative new book, Mattias Frey ofers a very different perspective on these films, exposing how they are also calculated products, designed to achieve global notoriety in a competitive marketplace. Extreme Cinema includes original interviews with the programmers of several leading international film festivals and with niche distributors and exhibitors, giving readers a revealing look at how these institutions enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the 'taboo-breakers' of arthouse cinema." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780813576497Contents: 1. Transgression and Distinction: Filmmaker Discourses -- 2. The Aesthetic Embrace and the Cynicism Criticism: Reception Discourses -- 3. The Rhetoric and Role of Film Festivals -- 4. Discourses and Modes of Distribution -- 5. The Interpretations of Regulation -- 6. The Added Value of International Distribution -- 7. Sex, Violence, and Self-Exoticization -- 8. Aesthetic Innovation and the Real: Academic Debate over Sexually Graphic Art Films -- 9. A Discursive Approach to Hardcore Art Cinema
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Film world : interviews with cinema's leading directors / Michel Ciment; translated by Julie Rose New York: Berg, 2009.
Call No: 802.25 CIMAuthor: Ciment, Michel Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: BergPubDate: 2009PhysDes: viii, 372 p. ; 25 cmSeries: Talking images seriesSubject: BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO ; BOORMAN, JOHN ; BRESSON, ROBERT ; CAMPION, JANE ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; EGOYAN, ATOM ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GREENAWAY, PETER ; HERZOG, WERNER ; HOU HSIAO-HSIEN ; WONG KAR WAI ; KAURISMAKI, AKI ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; KITANO TAKESHI ; IM KWON-TAEK ; LEIGH, MIKE ; DE OLIVEIRA, MANOEL ; RAY, SATYAJIT ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI ; VON TRIER, LARS ; ZHANG YIMOU Summary: "Film world brings together key interviews with cinema's learing directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years..." -- Back coverNotes: First published in France, 2003, by Editions Stock as Petite planete cinematographique; Includes indexISBN: 9781845204577Language: English, translated from the FrenchContents: 1. Bernardo Berrolucci -- 2. John Boorman -- 3. Robert Bresson -- 4. Jane Campion -- 5. John Cassavetes -- 6. David Cronenberg -- 7. Atom Egoyan -- 8. Federico Fellini -- 9. Jean-Luc Godard -- 10. Peter Greenaway -- 11. Werner Herzog -- 12. Hou Hsiao-hsien -- 13. Wong Kar-wai -- 14. Aki Kaurismaki -- 15. Abbas Kiarosrami -- 16. Krzyszrof Kieslowski -- 17. Takeshi Kirano -- 18. Im Kwon-taek -- 19. Mike Leigh -- 20. Manoel de Oliveira -- 21. Satyajit Ray -- 22. Marrin Scorsese -- 23. Andrei Tarkovsky -- 24. Lars von Trier -- 25. Zhang Yimou.ID2: 291
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Lars Von Trier's renewal of film 1984-2014 : signal, pixel, diagram / Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2018.
Call No: 81 VON THOAuthor: Thomsen, Bodil Marie Stavning Edition: 2018Place: AarhusPublisher: Aarhus University PressPubDate: 2018PhysDes: 364 pages : illustrated ; 25 cmSubject: VON TRIER, LARS ; RIGET (DK, Lars von Trier, 1994) ; RIGET II (DK, Lars Von Trier & Morten Arnfred, 1997) ; IDIOTERNE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 1998) ; DOGMA ; BREAKING THE WAVES (DK/FR, Lars Von Trier, 1996) ; DOGVILLE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 2002) ; ANTICHRIST (DK, Lars von Trier, 2009) ; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011) ; NYMPHOMANIAC [VOL. I AND VOL. II] (DK/G/BE/UK/FR, Lars von Trier, 2013) Summary: Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged – and most controversial – film directors of our time, Trier’s films often escape the representational production of meaning.
In Lars von Trier’s Renewal of Film 1984-2014. Signal, Pixel, Diagram scholar Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen offers a comprehensive discussion of Lars von Trier’s collected works. Examining Trier’s experiments with narrative forms, genre, camera usage, light, and colour tones, she shows how Trier’s unique ethically involving style activates the viewer’s entire perception apparatus. In understanding this affective involvement, the author frames the discussion around concepts from Gilles Deleuze, Alois Riegl, Brian Massumi and others on the haptic image, the diagram, affect and the signaletic material. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9788771842302
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Lars von Trier's Women / edited by Rex Butler and David Denny New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Available at ProQuest (RMIT login required)
Call No: 81TRI LARAuthor: Butler, Rex (ed.) ; Denny, David (ed.) Edition: paperback editionSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2018PhysDes: vi, 264 pages ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; VON TRIER, LARS ; DANCER IN THE DARK (FR/DK/SW, Lars von Trier, 2000) ; DOGVILLE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 2002) ; ANTICHRIST (DK, Lars von Trier, 2009) ; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011) ; NYMPHOMANIAC [VOL. I AND VOL. II] (DK/G/BE/UK/FR, Lars von Trier, 2013) Summary: "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 (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, such 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 considers 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 the work of prior scholars on the films, Lars von Trier's Women reveals hidden resources for a renewed "feminist" politics and social practice. "--Bloomsbury Publishing (Book back Cover)Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9781501342097Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction: the feminine act and the question of woman in Lars von Trier's films / Rex Butler and David Denny -- 1 Performing the feminine / Linda Badley -- 2 Femininity between Goodness and Act / Slavoj Zizek -- 3 Listening to Dancer in the Dark: Singing as recalling the world / Ulrike Hanstein -- 4 A woman's smile / Rex Butler -- 5 Female fight club: Lars von Trier's women and the paradox of Being / Sheila Kunkle -- 6 Cruelty and the real: The female figure in Orchidegartneren, Menthe - la bienheureuse and Befrielsesbilleder / Angelos Koutsourakis -- 7 What is the gift of Grace? On Dogville / Lorenzo Chiesa -- 8 Manderlay: The gift, Grace's desire and the collapse of ideology / Ahmed Elbeshlawy -- 9 Violent affects: Nature and the feminine in Antichrist / Magdalena Zolkos -- 10 A postmodern family romance: Antichrist / David Denny -- 11 Not melancholic enough: Triumph of the feminine in Melancholia / Todd McGowan -- 12 How to face nothing: Melancholia and the feminine / Jennifer Friedlander -- 13 Lars von Trier's fantasy of femininity in Nymphomaniac / Hilary Neroni -- 14 Mea maxima vulva: Appreciation and aesthetics of chance in Nymphomaniac / Tarja Laine -- list of contributors -- bibliography -- index --
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Living screens : melodrama and plasticity in contemporary film and television / Monique Rooney London -- Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, 2015.
Call No: 733 ROOAuthor: Rooney, Monique Source: UKPlace: London -- Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International LtdPubDate: 2015PhysDes: x, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSeries: DisruptionsSubject: MELODRAMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; TECHNOLOGY AND TV ; WEINER, MATTHEW ; HAYNES, TODD ; VON TRIER, LARS ; MAD MEN [TV] (US, 2007) ; MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011) ; MILDRED PIERCE [TV](US, 2011) Summary: Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner s Mad Men, Lars von Trier s Melancholia and Todd Haynes s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a plastic form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediationNotes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188), filmography (pages 188-189), and indexISBN: 9781783480470Contents: Introduction -- Mad Men: melodrama and metamorphosis -- Turned back: advertising, televisual melodrama and metamorphosis in Mad Men -- Earth-object: melodrama and plasticity in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia -- Melodrama and plasticity in Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce -- Postlude: Animated statue, melody, encore (moi!)
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The name of this book is Dogme95 / Richard Kelly London: Faber, 2000.
Call No: 64DOG KELAuthor: Kelly, Richard Place: LondonPublisher: FaberPubDate: 2000PhysDes: ix, 230 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: DOGMA ; VON TRIER, LARS ; VINTERBERG, THOMAS ; KORINE, HARMONY ; KRAGH-JACOBSEN, SOREN ; LEVRING, KRISTIAN ; JENSEN, PETER AALBAEK ; SCHERFIG, LONE ; BREMNER, EWEN ; LOVERS (FR, Jean-Marc Barr, 1999) ; KING IS ALIVE, THE (DK, Kristian Levring, 2000) ; IDIOTERNE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 1998) ; FESTEN (DK, Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) ; MIFUNE (DK/SW, Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, 1999) ; JULIEN DONKEY-BOY (US, Harmony Korine, 1999) ; DANISH FILM INSTITUTE WORKSHOP ISBN: 0571203329(pbk.) : No priceLON: 22099308
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On the Five Obstructions / guest editor Mette Hjort London: Wallflower, 2008.
Call No: 79FEM ONTAuthor: Hjort, Mette (ed) Source: UK/PLPlace: LondonPublisher: WallflowerPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxviii, 148 p. : ill ; 21 cmSeries: Dekalog; 1Subject: CRITICISM ; LETH, JORGEN ; VON TRIER, LARS ; FEM BESPAND, DE (DE/BE/SZ/UK, Jorgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, 2003) Summary: " The Dekalog series is a new list of bi-annual publications dedicated to presenting insightful criticism on a wide range of subjects across the full spectrum of contemporary global cinema. " BOOK BLURBNotes: "dekalog1: on the five obstructions" -- Cover; "The new home for serious film criticism"--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references.ISBN: 9781905674756Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2011Contents: Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Preface / Mette Hjort -- Romancing the Dane : ethics and observation / Susan Dwyer -- Style and creativity in the Five obstructions / Mette Hjort -- Constraint, cruelty and conversation / Hector Rodriguez -- Artistic nesting in the Five obstructions / Paisley Livingston -- Work and play : the 5-0 game / Trevor Ponech -- To calculate the moment : Leth's life as art / Peter Schrepelern -- Funny games / Murray Smith -- The Dekalog interview : Jørgen Leth -- The Dekalog re-view.
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