Wallflower

Lars von Trier Beyond Depression

Contexts and Collaborations

LINDA BADLEY

“This is the first comprehensive account of the recent work of Lars von Trier, offering a lively and compelling critical evaluation. A definitive resource on this period of von Trier’s output, its engagement with primary source material, interviews, and its incisive close readings will be indispensable to anyone interested in the filmmaker.”

—Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University

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 Tennessee State University. She is the author of Lars von Trier (2011) and coeditor of Nordic Noir, Adaptation, and Appropriation (2020), among other books.

Filming History from Below

Microhistorical Documentaries

EFRÉN CUEVAS

“Filming History from Below stands out for the uniqueness of its approach and its excavation of a previously untapped subject. Cuevas is able to show how the contributions of microhistorical

documentaries significantly broaden our understanding of movements, moments, and people of the past.”

—Robert Rosenstone, author of History on Film/Film

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 Man Without the Movie Camera: The Cinema of Alan Berliner (2002) and Landscapes of the Self: The Cinema of Ross McElwee (2008).

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19153-1 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19152-4 $27.99 / £22.00 e-book 978-0-231-54944-8

JANUARY 256 pages / 6" x 9" / 20–25 film stills $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19597-3 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19596-6 $29.99 / £25.00 e-book 978-0-231-55157-1

DECEMBER 256 pages / 6" x 9" / 25 film stills

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