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Lars von Trier Beyond Depression
Filming History from Below
Contexts and Collaborations
Microhistorical Documentaries
LINDA BADLEY
EFRÉN CUEVAS
“This is the first comprehensive account of the
“Filming History from Below stands out for the
recent work of Lars von Trier, offering a lively and
uniqueness of its approach and its excavation of
compelling critical evaluation. A definitive resource
a previously untapped subject. Cuevas is able to
on this period of von Trier’s output, its engagement
show how the contributions of microhistorical
with primary source material, interviews, and its
documentaries significantly broaden our
incisive close readings will be indispensable to
understanding of movements, moments, and
anyone interested in the filmmaker.”
people of the past.”
—Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University
—Robert Rosenstone, author of History on Film/Film
Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013–14), and The House That Jack Built (2018) and the contexts that produced them. Drawing on numerous interviews with the director and his collaborators as well as inside access to archival materials, she provides a thorough and comprehensive account of von Trier’s preproduction and creative process. LINDA BADLEY
is professor emerita of English at Middle
on History
In recent decades, a new type of historical documentary has emerged, focusing on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as “microhistorical documentaries” and examines how they push cinema’s capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions. EFRÉN CUEVAS
is a professor in the Department of Film
and TV at the University of Navarra. He is coeditor of The
Tennessee State University. She is the author of Lars von
Man Without the Movie Camera: The Cinema of Alan Berliner
Trier (2011) and coeditor of Nordic Noir, Adaptation, and
(2002) and Landscapes of the Self: The Cinema of Ross
Appropriation (2020), among other books.
McElwee (2008).
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