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Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier¿s
Antichrist (2009),
Melancholia (2011),
Nymphomaniac (2013¿14), and
The House That Jack Built (2018) and the contexts that produced them. She draws on numerous interviews with the director and his collaborators as well as inside access to archival materials.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nature as Satan¿s Church:
Antichrist¿s Dark Ecology
2.
Melancholia: Wagner, Superkitsch, and Dark Ecology
3.
Nymphomaniac: Digressionism, Collaboration, Hypotexts, Paratexts
4.
The House That Jack Built: Murder as Art/Art as Murder
Coda
Appendix
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Linda Badley
Summary
Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013–14), and The House That Jack Built (2018) and the contexts that produced them. She draws on numerous interviews with the director and his collaborators as well as inside access to archival materials.
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As one of the foremost scholars on Lars von Trier’s entire oeuvre, Linda Badley’s new in-depth study provides a fresh perspective, integrating extensive archival research, contemporary cultural references, and interviews with the director and his longtime collaborators. In examining some of the Danish auteur’s most criticized—perhaps even despised—films, Lars von Trier: Beyond Depression uncovers multiple new approaches to understanding the processes that shaped their intensity and singularity.
