Koutsourakis, A (2012) Specters of Brecht in Dogme 95: Are Brecht and Realism Necessarily Antithetical? In: Weidauer, FJ, (ed.) The B-Effect-Influences of/on Brecht. The Brecht Yearbook, 37 . University of Wisconsin Press , pp. 40-61. ISBN 978-0-9851956-0-1
Abstract
One of the aims of this article is to rethink the 1970s distinction between Brechtian and realist cinema by means of an analysis of the Dogme 95 Manifesto and a case study of Lars von Trier's Dogme film The Idiots (1998). Primarily, the article discusses Dogme's combination of a Brechtiai1/ political modernist rhetoric with a realist one and sets out to offer a historical interpretation of Dogme's return to the cinematic debates of the past. Then I discuss the ways von Trier's film merges a long-take realist tradition with a "gestic" /investigative attitude that generates tensions between the scripted referents and the filmmaking process.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Dogme 95; Brecht; Realism; Lars von Trier |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2017 15:04 |
Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2017 15:04 |
Published Version: | http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/brecht.html |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
Series Name: | The Brecht Yearbook |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:109331 |