Lars von Trier's Women
Dr Rex Butler, David Denny
ISBN: | 9781501322471 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Published: | 17 November, 2016 |
Format: | eBook |
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Lars von Trier's Women
Dr Rex Butler, David Denny
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, as with 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, as in his
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