Lars Von Trier

by Linda Badley and Linda Badley

Book Overview

Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies they narrowly miss becoming. Challenging conventional limitations and imposing his own rules, he restlessly reinvents the film language. The Danish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077903
• ISBN13: 9780252077906
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"