Investigating the feminist significance of Lars von Trier's representation of women in his Golden Heart Trilogy (1996/1998/2000) and Antichrist (2009)

Evans, Melissa Albie

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: pdf
Publisher: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Publisher: Faculty of Arts
Language: English
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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