Cutting through the controversy in Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'
- Event Name
- Cutting through the controversy in Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'
- Date
- 28 September 2012
- Time
- 05:00 pm -
- Location
- External
Address (Room): Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
- Description
- Lars von Trier’s most recent film Melancholia (2011) has provoked no end of debate: simultaneously hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ and ‘tiresome’, von Trier himself half-dismissed the work as ‘too polished’ and ‘a woman’s film’ at its premiere at Cannes (where he was infamously declared ‘persona non grata’ after noting that he had come to ‘understand Hitler’). This seminar seeks to cut through the controversy in order address some of its major themes and contexts.
Speakers: Dr Christopher Peterson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.Dr. Alex Ling is Research Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.Dr. Robert Sinnerbrink is Lecturer in Philosophy at Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University. Dr Magdalena Zolkos is Senior Research Fellow in Political Theory in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney.
- Contact
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Name: Silvia Martinez
Phone: (02) 9772 6190
School / Department: School of Humanities and Communication Arts
