Lars von Trier's Women

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The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticised for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic self-abnegation. At other times, it is the women in his films who are dominant or break out in violence, such as in his adaptation of 'Euripides' Medea', the conclusion of 'Dogville' and perhaps throughout 'Nymphomaniac'. This book confronts these dichotomies head on.