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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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NYMPHOMANIAC [VOL.I AND VOL. II] : DK/G/BE/UK/FR, Lars von Trier, 2013
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Sexual deviations in The Australian [News] (22/03/2014) p.14
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The space of sex : the porn aesthetic in contemporary film and television / Shelton Waldrep New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Call No: 749.2 WALAuthor: Waldrep, Shelton Edition: 2021Place: New YorkPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 2021PhysDes: 294 pages : illustrated ; 24 cmSubject: [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; EYES WIDE SHUT (US/UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1999) ; FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987) ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; CANYONS, THE (US, Paul Schrader, 2013) ; MAGIC MIKE (US, Steven Soderbergh, 2012) ; SAVAGES (US, Oliver Stone, 2012) ; NYMPHOMANIAC [VOL. I AND VOL. II] (DK/G/BE/UK/FR, Lars von Trier, 2013) ; LOVE (FR/BE, Gaspar Noe, 2015) ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS Summary: As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole.
The Space of Sex's second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul Schrader's The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone's Savages (2012), Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon (2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more, are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulse-the desire to have sex on the screen, to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shame-with a mixed feeling about pornography itself, with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words, sex, in our contemporary world, still does not come without compromise. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781501333057Contents: Introduction -- Part One: Topographies of Desire -- 1.Framing the Image: The Female Body in Late Kubrick -- 2.The Spy Who Loved Me: Bond and the Playboy Aesthetic -- Part Two: The Pornographic Imaginary -- 3.Theorizing Pornography -- 4.Body of Art -- Part Three: The Space of Sex in Contemporary Film and Television -- 5.Porn as Form and Content -- 6.Spatializing Desire -- Bibliography -- Index
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