{"product_id":"lars-von-trier-beyond-depression-9780231191524","title":"Lars von Trier Beyond Depression","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier’s \u003ci\u003eAntichrist\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eMelancholia\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eNymphomaniac\u003c\/i\u003e (2013–14), and \u003ci\u003eThe House That Jack Built\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda Badley’s book is indispensable not only for those drawn, in spite of ourselves, to von Trier’s films, but also to all experiencing our contemporary moment in the register of despair and anxiety.  Informed by personal conversations with von Trier, deeply ensconced in the filmmaking process and all its collaborators, and attentive to von Trier’s deliberate bad taste as well as his play with bending genre, Badley’s provocative readings of each film locate them in the director’s psyche while also showing that they offer a deft diagnosis of misogyny, climate disaster, capitalism, and hypocrisy run amok. -- Lori Marso, coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePolitics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLars von Trier Beyond Depression\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive account of the recent work of Lars von Trier, offering a lively and compelling critical evaluation of his cycle of ‘post-depression’ films that began with \u003ci\u003eMelancholia \u003c\/i\u003e(2009). A definitive resource on this period of von Trier’s output, its engagement with primary source material, interviews, and its incisive close readings will be indispensable to anyone interested in the filmmaker and his place within contemporary cinema. -- Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University\u003cbr\u003eWe should be grateful to Linda Badley for leading us into the darkness of Lars von Trier's cinematic world and illuminating it. \u003ci\u003eLars von Trier Beyond Depression \u003c\/i\u003edraws on Badley's extraordinary knowledge of Trier and his cinema to study \u003ci\u003eAntichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe House that Jack Built. \u003c\/i\u003eBadley uses interviews of Trier and his collaborators, close analysis, genre studies, film-philosophy, ecocriticism, discussions of extreme cinema, and postcritical and postcinematic discussion to unfurl the strata of Trier's films. The book is a tour de force.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAny reader interested in Trier or auteur cinema and its afterlife should read it. -- Andrew Nestingen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Aki Kaurismaki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on careful archival research and on highly productive insights from countless practitioner interviews, \u003ci\u003eLars von Trier Beyond Depression\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling account of \u003ci\u003eAntichrist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMelancholia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNymphomaniac\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe House That Jack Built\u003c\/i\u003e. Focusing on the intentions, self-understandings, and personal experiences of von Trier and such theoretical lenses as dark ecology and psychoanalysis\/therapy, Linda Badley evokes the contours of an ethical project in the Danish director’s contributions to trauma cinema and extreme cinema. -- Mette Hjort, chair professor of humanities and dean of arts, Hong Kong Baptist University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLars von Trier Beyond Depression\u003c\/i\u003e presents new, insightful readings into the director’s latest films, including valuable reflections on the creative processes and sources of inspiration in von Trier’s work based on extensive archival material, notes, statements, and drafts. These are supplemented with new interviews regarding key questions, which generates a fascinating explorative text on the cultural influences and impacts issuing from one of our finest film directors today. With her impressive and meticulous contribution, Linda Badley not only succeeds in giving new perspectives on von Trier’s films, she also manages to substantiate in depth how Danish and European culture and ways of thinking differ from American. Anyone interested in Lars von Trier’s oeuvre should start with reading this book infused with genuine ideas and perspectives. -- Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, author of \u003ci\u003eLars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014: Signal, Pixel, Diagram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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, \u003ci\u003eLars von Trier: Beyond Depression\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers multiple new approaches to understanding the processes that shaped their intensity and singularity. -- Anna Westerstahl Stenport, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eNordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Nature as Satan’s Church: \u003ci\u003eAntichrist’\u003c\/i\u003es Dark Ecology\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003ci\u003eMelancholia\u003c\/i\u003e: Wagner, Superkitsch, and Dark Ecology\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eNymphomaniac\u003c\/i\u003e: Digressionism, Collaboration, Hypotexts, Paratexts\u003cbr\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eThe House That Jack Built:\u003c\/i\u003e Murder as Art\/Art as Murder\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524655456599,"sku":"9780231191524","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231191524.jpg?v=1731857632","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lars-von-trier-beyond-depression-9780231191524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}