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Lars von Trier's cinema : excess, evil, and the prophetic voice
- Title
- Lars von Trier's cinema : excess, evil, and the prophetic voice / Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran.
- Author
- Ver Straten-McSparran, Rebecca
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- xi, 280 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier's cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeur's symbols of evil, myth, and hermeneutics of revelation. The films of Lars von Trier are categorized as extreme cinema, inducing trauma and emotional rupture rarely paralleled, while challenging audiences to respond in new ways. This volume argues that the spiritual, biblical content of the films holds a key to understanding von Trier's oeuvre of excess. Spiritual conflict is the mechanism that unpacks the films' notorious excess with explosive, centrifugal force. By confronting the spectator with spiritual conflict through evil, von Trier's films truthfully and prophetically expose the spectator's complicity in personal and structural evil, forcing self-examination through theological themes, analogous to the prophetic voice of the transgressive Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, his prophecy, and its form of delivery. Placed in context with the prophetic voices of Dante, Milton, Dostoyevsky, O'Connor, and Tarkovsky, this volume offers a theoretical framework beyond von Trier. It will be of great interest to scholars in Film Studies, Film and Philosophy, Film and Theology"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in religion and film
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in religion and film.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography (pages [259]-267).
- Contents
- Context : prophets and prophecy, Ezekiel, and the spirit -- Artist as prophet : affinities in Dante, Milton, Dostoyevsky, O'Connor, and Tarkovsky -- Aesthetics of prophecy : narrative structures and prophetic themes -- Aesthetics of image, sound, and style : embodying the prophetic voice -- Antichrist : Paradise lost and our capacity for evil -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- MWES (Trier, L.) 22-897
- ISBN
- 9780367766566
- 0367766566
- 9780367775742
- 0367775743
- LCCN
- 2021009077
- OCLC
- 1256593154
- Author
- Ver Straten-McSparran, Rebecca, author.
- Title
- Lars von Trier's cinema : excess, evil, and the prophetic voice / Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in religion and filmRoutledge studies in religion and film.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes filmography (pages [259]-267).
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ver Straten-McSparran, Rebecca. Lars von Trier's cinema Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9781003171928 (DLC) 2021009078
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Trier, L.) 22-897