- Title
- Investigating the feminist significance of Lars von Trier's representation of women in his Golden Heart Trilogy (1996/1998/2000) and Antichrist (2009)
- Creator
- Evans, Melissa Albie
- Subject
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Subject
- Feminism
- Subject
- Anti-feminism
- Subject
- Second-wave feminism
- Subject
- Trier, Lars von, 1956-
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:8409
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011634
- Identifier
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Identifier
- Feminism
- Identifier
- Anti-feminism
- Identifier
- Second-wave feminism
- Identifier
- Trier, Lars von, 1956-
- Description
- Despite critics‟ negative appraisal of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009) for its ostensible misogyny, a deep thematic resonance exists between its representation of women as historical victims of patriarchal discourse, and the positive representations of women as Christ-like figures found in his Golden Heart Trilogy (1996/1998/2000). Arguably, it is important to recognize this, because these films together comprise an exercise in cinematic resistance to the narratives of the „backlash‟ against women's rights, thematized by Susan Faludi in her Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women; resistance which is undermined when these films are considered disparate or incongruous.
- Format
- v, 90 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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