Prognosis End-Time: Madness and Prophecy in Melancholia and Take Shelter
This paper discusses two films released in 2011, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and Jeff Nichols Take Shelter in the context of the history of dominant conceptions of madness as laid out in Foucault's History of Madness. I argue that these films allegorise protagonists' experiences of d...
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Milano University Press
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2992 |