Meta-Anti-Musical: Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark
Dancer in the Dark is largely about movies, in particular, about those movies in which people sing and dance their troubles away. Even this self-reflexivity situates the film in the[…]
Author: Milo Sweedler
Milo Sweedler is Associate Professor of French, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research interests include narrative cinema, literary criticism and theory, and social and political theories. He is the author of The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure (University of Delaware Press), The Dialectic of Truth and Fiction in Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), and Rumble and Crash: Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film (forthcoming from SUNY Press). He can be reached at msweedler@wlu.ca.
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