Review of Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading
Controversial and unconventional designer of formal experimentations, simultaneously celebrated and despised around the world, performative to a point that realism is achieved through the manipulation of realistic conventions hidden in everyday forms of human interactions, von Trier is indeed one of...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Pittsburgh
2014-10-01
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| Series: | CINEJ Cinema Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/106 |
| Summary: | Controversial and unconventional designer of formal experimentations, simultaneously celebrated and despised around the world, performative to a point that realism is achieved through the manipulation of realistic conventions hidden in everyday forms of human interactions, von Trier is indeed one of the most important contemporary filmmakers within European cinema, as well as the protagonist of Koutsourakis’s Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-2411 2158-8724 |