The Postfeminist Masquerade and the Cynical Male Gaze: The Disavowal of Sexual Difference in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves
This article is a commentary on the Lacanian appropriation of Breaking the Waves by Slavoj Zizek, Frances Restuccia and others who argue that the film’s saintly heroine, Bess, performs an authentic feminine act paradoxically in her very suicidal over-identification with her husband’s male chauvinist...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2014-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4093 |
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