{"product_id":"lars-von-triers-women-9781501342097","title":"Lars Von Trier's Women","description":"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\u003ci\u003e Breaking the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, 'She' in \u003ci\u003eAntichrist \u003c\/i\u003eand Joe in \u003ci\u003eNymphomaniac\u003c\/i\u003e. At other times, it is the women in his films who are dominant or break out in violence, as in his adaptation of Euripides' \u003ci\u003eMedea\u003c\/i\u003e, the conclusion of \u003ci\u003eDogville \u003c\/i\u003eand perhaps throughout \u003ci\u003eNymphomaniac\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLars von Trier's Women \u003c\/i\u003econfronts these dichotomies head on. Editors Rex Butler and David Denny do not take a position either for or against von Trier, but rather consider how both attitudes fall short of the real difficulty of his films, which may simply not conform to any kind of feminist or indeed anti-feminist politics as they are currently configured. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and acknowledging the work of prior scholars on the films, \u003ci\u003eLars von Trier's Women\u003c\/i\u003e reveals hidden resources for a renewed 'feminist' politics and social practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRex Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eSlavoj Zizek: Live Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eBorges' Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), \u003ci\u003e The Zizek Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eDeleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy? \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). He has written for \u003ci\u003eFilm-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, contributed essays to a number of collections on cinema, and edited two volumes of Zizek's writings (\u003ci\u003eInterrogating the Real\u003c\/i\u003e, 2005; \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Exception, \u003c\/i\u003e2006). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Denny\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor and current Chair of the Department of Culture and Media at Marylhurst University, USA. He teaches and does research on the intersection of critical theory, psychoanalysis, film and politics. He has published \"Signifying Grace: On \u003ci\u003eDogville\u003c\/i\u003e in\u003ci\u003e The International Journal of Zizek Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Politics of Enjoyment: On\u003ci\u003e The Hurt Locker\u003c\/i\u003e\" in\u003ci\u003e Theory and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"\u003ci\u003eMelancholia\u003c\/i\u003e: An Alternative to the End of the World\" in the collected volume \u003ci\u003eCinematic Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50853596659986,"sku":"9781501342097","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0cd771e-4e5b-49f7-bae5-1dd0526d5766.jpg?v=1737452214","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lars-von-triers-women-9781501342097","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}