Lars Von Trier's Women (Paperback)

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Feminine Act and the Question of Woman in Lars von Trier's Films - Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia) and David Denny (Marylhurst University, USA) Chapter 1: Performing the Feminine - Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) Chapter 2: Feminimity: Between Goodness and Act - Slavoj Zizek (University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) Chapter 3: Listening to Dancer in the Dark: Singing as Recalling the World - Ulrike Hanstein (Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany) Chapter 4: A Woman's Smile - Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia) Chapter 5: Female Fight Club: Lars von Trier's Women and the Paradox of Being - Sheila Kunkle (Metropolitan State University, USA) Chapter 6: Cruelty and the Real: The female figure in Orchidegartneren (1977), Menthe - la bienheureuse (1979) and Befrielsesbilleder (1982)- Angelos Koutsourakis (University Leeds, UK) Chapter 7: What is the Gift of Grace? On Dogville - Lorenzo Chiesa (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) Chapter 8: Manderlay: The Gift, Grace's Desire and the Collapse of Ideology - Ahmed Elbeshlawy (University of Hong Kong) Chapter 9: Violent Affects: Nature and the Feminine in Antichrist - Magdalena Zolkos (Australian Catholic University) Chapter 10: A Postmodern Family Romance: Antichrist - David Denny (Marylhurst University, USA) Chapter 11: Not Melancholic Enough - Todd McGowan (University of Vermont, USA) Chapter 12: How to Face Nothing: Melancholia and the Feminine - Jennifer Friedlander (Pomona College, USA) Chapter 13: Lars von Trier's Fantasy of Femininity in Nymphomaniac - Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont, USA) Chapter 14: Mea Maxima Vulva: Appreciation and Aesthetics of Chance in Nymphomaniac - Tarja Laine (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Index