As 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 criticizedperhaps even despisedfilms, Lars von Trier: Beyond Depression uncovers multiple new approaches to understanding the processes that shaped their intensity and singularity.

Autorentext
Linda Badley is professor emerita of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author of Lars von Trier (2011) and coeditor of Nordic Noir, Adaptation, and Appropriation (2020), among other books.

Klappentext

Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier s Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013 14), and The House That Jack Built (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.

Zusammenfassung
Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (201314), and The House That Jack Built (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.

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Nature as Satan's Church: Antichrist's Dark Ecology
2. Melancholia: Wagner, Superkitsch, and Dark Ecology
3. Nymphomaniac: Digressionism, Collaboration, Hypotexts, Paratexts
4. The House That Jack Built: Murder as Art/Art as Murder
   Coda
   Appendix
   Notes
   Filmography
   Bibliography
   Index