{"product_id":"lars-von-triers-women","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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223391949144,"sku":"9781501322457","price":173.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501322457_e3c2fc9b-23d4-44b1-8f8e-5e4d7704e05c.jpg?v=1743738336","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lars-von-triers-women","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}