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The persistence of dialectics or the desire for history in Lars von Trier's Europa and Theo Angelopoulos' The Suspended Step of the Stork
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posted on 2023-06-08, 10:55 authored by Angelos KoutsourakisIn this article I intend to discuss cinema’s potential to represent history in a period that political conflict and historical referents seem to be absent. I am going to pursue this argument through a comparative reading of two films, Lars von Trier’s Europa (1991) and Theo Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991). My contention is that these two films exploit historical narratives of the past and the present with the view to negating teleological and ahistorical assumptions that history has come to a standstill.
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Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual MediaISSN
1192-6252Publisher
University of WaterlooVolume
33Page range
93-106Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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2012-02-21Usage metrics
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