Her green materials: Mourning, 'Melancholia' and not-so-vital materialisms

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Publication date 2013
Journal NECSUS
Volume | Issue number 2 | 1
Pages (from-to) 179-196
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) is paints a mise-en-scene which draws the spectator into a feminine sensibility which illuminates how, paradoixcally, human life is not central to the planet, nor is human existence anything other than precarious, passing and therefore beautiful: James Lovelock meets Deleuze meets Kant's third critique meets metaphaphyiiscal poetry meets Charlotte Gainsbourgh and Kirsten Dunst.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2013.1.LORD
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