Open AccessReview of Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading
Author(s) -
Sara Marino
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cinej cinema journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2159-2411
pISSN - 2158-8724
DOI - 10.5195/cinej.2014.106
Subject(s) - performative utterance , reading (process) , politics , movie theater , realism , art , aesthetics , literature , philosophy , political science , linguistics , law
Controversial and unconventional designer of formal experimentations, simultaneously celebrated and despised around the world, performative to a point that realism is achieved through the manipulation of realistic conventions hidden in everyday forms of human interactions, von Trier is indeed one of the most important contemporary filmmakers within European cinema, as well as the protagonist of Koutsourakis’s Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading