Frozen style and strong emotions of panic and separation: Trier's prologues to Antichrist and Melancholia

Torben Kragh Grodal

doi:10.1386/jsca.2.1.47_1

Frozen style and strong emotions of panic and separation: Trier's prologues to Antichrist and Melancholia

Department of Communication

Abstract

The article analyses the aesthetics of two Trier prologues using cognitive psychology. It focuses on how the films evoke anxiety and panic, and how the panic is contained by means of providing visual and musical aesthetic order to the dynamic emotional forces; by providing ambiguous reality indicatiors; and by cueing sublime submission to fate

Translated title of the contribution	Frossen stil og stærke panik-og-adskillelsesfølelser: Triers prologer til Antichrist og Melancholia
Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Volume	2
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	47-53
Number of pages	7
ISSN	2042-7891
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.2.1.47_1
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Faculty of Humanities

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