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Lars von Trier's Cinema
Author: Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran
language: en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2021-11-11
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.
Advancing Education for Sustainable Development
Author: Barbara Scharfbillig
language: en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date: 2025-04-08
This report details a two-year German-Namibian Educator Exchange organised by Light for the Children Foundation and Suni e.V., aimed at cultivating educators' intercultural competencies and expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Through workshops, training sessions, and collaborative projects, 14 educators developed learning modules and implemented ESD initiatives, impacting children across Germany and Namibia. The exchange surpassed expectations, fostering significant personal and professional growth among participants. Despite environmental concerns due to travel, the program's outcome was deemed significant, as it fostered lasting friendships and collaborative spirit among educators from both nations.
Lars von Trier's Women
Author: Rex Butler
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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 Breaking the Waves, 'She' in Antichrist and Joe in Nymphomaniac. At other times, it is the women in his films who are dominant or break out in violence, as in his adaptation of Euripides' Medea, the conclusion of Dogville and perhaps throughout Nymphomaniac. Lars von Trier's Women confronts 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, Lars von Trier's Women reveals hidden resources for a renewed 'feminist' politics and social practice.