Publisher's Synopsis
This anthology contains original essays by students taking a special topics seminar on Lars von Trier and his work in the Department of Communication at Wake Forest University. Library Partners Press has published this, the sixth volume in the Critical Media Studies Series, and it features student essays on Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011), and The House That Jack Built (2018). Volume I, Student Essays on The Wire, was published in 2015; Volume II, Student Essays on Deadwood, was published in 2016; Volume III, Student Essays on Contemporary Sitcoms, was published in 2017; Volume IV, Student Essays on Education and Popular Culture, was published in 2017; and, Volume V: Student Essays on Gender in Nordic Cinema, was published in 2018.
