My long (18000 words) essay on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, previously available in the open-access, online film journal Sequence, is now available as well as a free ebook (in epub, mobi, and pdf formats).
"If you fake the funk, your nose will grow." — Bootsy Collins
My long (18000 words) essay on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, previously available in the open-access, online film journal Sequence, is now available as well as a free ebook (in epub, mobi, and pdf formats).
Just discovered your site while reading up on Whitehead.
Look forward to reading your take on Melancholia. My review when walking out was that it was the yin to “Tree of Life”‘s yang.
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