Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud : the moving word /
"If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might have put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal; it was lambasted on its rel...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might have put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal; it was lambasted on its release for its lugubrious pace, wooden acting, and old-fashioned, stuffy milieu. To make vivid just what was at stake for Dreyer, and still for us, in his final work, James Schamus follows a trail of references and allusions back through a number of thinkers and artists to reveal the richness and depth of Dreyer's work. Gertrud serves as a locus for Dreyer's twin fixations - on written texts, and on the heroines who both embody and free themselves from them."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | "A McLellan book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 117 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780295801483 0295801484 0295988541 9780295988542 |