TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brian Michael Goss
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1528-610X
TI  - Global Auteurs
T2  - Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, von Trier, and Winterbottom
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1106099
N2  - Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.  With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book’s insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodóvar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von Trier’s corpus is interpreted as driven by a motif that characterizes all of his films: the «failed idealist». Michael Winterbottom’s body of work presents a genre-diverse, post-MTV style concerned with «outsiders» and taboo, representation and truth, and human rights.  Global Auteurs’ sophisticated approach to decoding film is suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses on film, global mass media, and contemporary Europe.
KW  - Almodóvar, Pedro, Politik (Motiv), Autorenfilm, Trier, Lars ¬von¬, Winterbottom, Michael (Regisseur), Film Industry, Auteur Theory, European Film, Almodóvarm, Pedro, Trier, Lars von, Winterbottom, Michael
LA  - English
ER  -