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Informationen zum Autor Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University.Lori J. Marso is Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Union College. Klappentext Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as provocateur, as well as to his films' techniques, topics, and storytelling. Where others accuse von Trier of being clich?d, the editors argue that he intensifies the "clich?s of our times" in ways that direct our political energies towards apprehending and repairing a shattered world. The book is certainly for von Trier lovers and haters but, at the same time, political, critical, and feminist theorists entirely unfamiliar with von Trier's films will find this volume's essays of interest. Most of the contributors tarry with von Trier to develop new readings of major thinkers and writers, including Agamben, Bataille, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Deleuze, Euripides, Freud, Kierkegaard, Ranci?re, Nietzsche, Winnicott, and many more. Von Trier is both central and irrelevant to much of this work. Writing from the fields of classics, literature, gender studies, philosophy, film and political theory, the authors stage an interdisciplinary intervention in film studies. Zusammenfassung The disturbing and intense films of Lars von Trier are often dismissed as misogynist, misanthropic, or anti-humanist. This book, however, invites us to engage with his work to found a new feminist vision and discover what might be distinctively hopeful for the future of our fragile human condition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Davide Panagia Acknowledgments About the Contributors INTRODUCTION Lars von Trier and the 'Clichés of Our Times' Bonnie Honig and Lori J. Marso I. ANTI-SEMITE/JEW VON TRIER Tony Cokes (Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room) 1. An Invitation from Lars von Trier - Transcript of the First TV interview since the Cannes Press Conference, with Martin Krasnik, Danish journalist. Translated by Troels Skadhauge and Lars Tønder II. WOMAN/NYMPH 2. Must We Burn Lars von Trier? Simone de Beauvoir's Body Politics in Antichrist Lori J. Marso 3. The Suffering Spectator? Perversion and Complicity in Antichrist and Nymphomaniac Rosalind Galt 4. The Nymph Shoots Back: Agamben and the Feel of the Agon Lynne Huffer III. FATE/MARTYR 5. Sharing in What Death Reveals: Breaking the Waves with Bataille Stephen S. Bush 6. Broken by God: Fate and Divine Intervention in Breaking the Waves James Martel IV. YOUNG AMERICANS 7. Blind Spots and Double Vision: National and Individual Fantasy in Dancer in the Dark Victoria Wohl 8. "Young Americans": Ranciére and Bowie in Dogville Paul Apostilidis 9. Three Emancipations: Manderlay and Racialized Freedom Elisabeth R. Anker 10. Face Value: von Trier, Bowie, Kanye (Notes on a review and three rants) Tony Cokes KANYE Tony Cokes (Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room) V. EUROPE/EVIL BOWIE Tony Cokes (Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room) 11. "At the Fringes of One's Consciousness": Kierkegaard, The Idiots, and the Politics of Comic Rule Following Lars Tønder 12. A Philopoetic Engagement: Deleuze and The Element of Crime Michael J. Shapiro 13. Evils of Representation in Europa and Melancholia Joshua Foa Dienstag VI. THINKING/MELANCHOLIA 14. Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Melancholia as Thought Experiment Thomas Elsaesser 15. ...
