Purity and Provocation

by Hjort, Mette; Mackenzie, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780851709529
• ISBN10: 0851709524
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-24
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

This volume brings together leading scholars from a number of disciplines--film studies, literature, philosophy--in order to focus on some of the key historical and conceptual issues associated with Dogme 95's original formulation.

Author Biography

Mette Hjort is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Hong Kong and Associate Professor in Aalborg University in Denmark. She has written, edited and co-edited a number of books, including Cinema and Nation (2002) and The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema (2001). Scott MacKenzie is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is co-editor of Cinema and Nation (2000) and author of Screening Quebec: Quebecois Cinema, National Identity and the Public Sphere. (2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Notes on Contributors	x
Introduction
Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie	1	(30)
PART ONE
1 Dogma 95: A Small Nation's Response to Globalisation
Mette Hjort	31	(17)
2 Manifest Destinies: Dogma 95 and the Future of the Film Manifesto
Scott MacKenzie	48	(47)
3 'Kill Your Darlings': Lars von Trier and the Origin of Dogma	95
Peter Schepelern	58	(12)
4 Dogma 95 and the New Danish Cinema
Ib Bondebjerg	70	(19)
PART TWO
5 Naked Film: Dogma and its Limits
Berys Gaut	89	(13)
6 Artistic Self-Reflexivity in The King is Alive and Strass
Paisley Livingston	102	(9)
7 Lars von Trier: Sentimental Surrealist
Murray Smith	111	(11)
8 Dogma in Paris: Jean-Marc Barr's Lovers
Ginette Vincendeau	122	(11)
PART THREE
9 The Globalisation of Dogma: The Dynamics of Metaculture and Counter-Publicity
Mette Hjort	133	(25)
10 Decoding D-Day: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium
Martin Roberts	158	(15)
11 Dogma Dance
Sally Banes and Noël Carroll	173	(10)
12 Documentary Gets the Dogma Treatment
Claus Christensen	183	(6)
13 Dogma and Marketing: The State of Film Marketing in Europe and the Achievements of the First Dogma Films
Mads Egmont Christensen	189	(10)
PART FOUR
Appendix I: Dogma 95 Manifesto and its Progeny
Compiled by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie	199	(11)
Appendix II: Dogma Filmography
Compiled by Emma Bell	210	(15)
Appendix III: Dogma-related Films
Compiled by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie	225	(6)
Index	231