ROMANTIK UND SYMBOLISMUS.
Authors: Subtitle: BILDER UND MUSIK IN DER OUVERTÜRE VON LARS VON TRIERS MELANCHOLIA.
Year: 2024
Categories: Text / Book / Print, dissertation
The aim is to decipher the mental and emotional world of the images and music in Lars von Trier's Melancholia. The thesis is that the overture, in its narrative and representational style, can be traced back to Romanticism and Symbolism. The question is to what extent this heritage can be proven and what relevance it has for the 21st century. For this study, the author had conversations with director Lars von Trier, editor Molly Stensgaard, cinematographer Manuel Claro, and special effects artist Peter Hjorth. The focus is on the study of the aesthetic creation of meaning and the developments in the history of art, culture, and civilization. These are analyzed in their intertextual and multimedia relationships and discussed in an interdisciplinary way with film, music and theater studies as well as art history and philosophy. Furthermore, the question arises to what extent film can be described as a mannerist art. To the highly romantic music from Richard Wagner's „Tristan und Isolde“, Trier shows 16 images that can be seen as quotations from the fine arts. In order to understand this complex and multi-layered work of art, the underlying traditions and references are revealed in order to contextualize them in relation to the work Melancholia in particular and film art in general.
Supervision:
Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Reck
Authors: A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Source:
Archiv Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
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Kontakt:
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