The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial
responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic …

This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which
contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of …

EXTREME CINEMA Page 1 EXTREME CINEMA Affective Strategies in Transnational Media
Aaron Michael Kerner and Jonathan L. Knapp Page 2 Extreme Cinema Page 3 Page 4 …

Although relatively small, the northern countries of Scandinavia have made a
disproportionately large contribution to world cinema. Indeed, some of their films are among …

The paper situates current developments in British theatre within wider trends towards
dystopia and (post-) apocalyptic writing. A central focus is on the role of posthuman …

Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema explores the representation of homicidal women in
six contemporary films: Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis …

Rescue comes in unexpected ways for one man and his dog in this moving and redemptive
novel, The Dog Who Saved Me, by New York Times bestselling author Susan Wilson …

Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance
with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged-and most controversial …

Lars von Trier's 2009 film Antichrist, produced by the Danish company Zentropa, tells a story
of parental loss, mourning, and despair that follow, and ostensibly result from, the tragic …

In the controversy surrounding Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009), the film's rich Nordic
cultural heritage has been largely overlooked. Often labelled misogynistic, the film …