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Lars von Trier's Cinema Excess Evil and the Prophetic Voice

Lars von Trier's Cinema Excess Evil and the Prophetic Voice

This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier’s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeur’s symbols of evil myth and hermeneutics of revelation. The films of Lars von Trier are categorized as extreme cinema inducing trauma and emotional rupture rarely paralleled while challenging audiences to respond in new ways. This volume argues that the spiritual biblical content of the films holds a key to understanding von Trier’s oeuvre of excess. Spiritual conflict is the mechanism that unpacks the films’ notorious excess with explosive centrifugal force. By confronting the spectator with spiritual conflict through evil von Trier's films truthfully and prophetically expose the spectator’s complicity in personal and structural evil forcing self-examination through theological themes analogous to the prophetic voice of the transgressive Hebrew prophet Ezekiel his prophecy and its form of delivery. Placed in context with the prophetic voices of Dante Milton Dostoyevsky O’Connor and Tarkovsky this volume offers a theoretical framework beyond von Trier. It will be of great interest to scholars in film studies film and philosophy film and theology. | Lars von Trier's Cinema Excess Evil and the Prophetic Voice

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Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics

Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics

Theoretically and representationally responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desire. It has commonly been understood as a passive form of sexuality thus ignoring the potential for activity and agency that the masochistic position may involve which underpins the crucial argument that female masochism can be conceived as enquiring ethical activity. Taking as its subject the works of Jane Campion Catherine Breillat Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as well as the films Secretary (Steven Shainberg) Dans Ma Peau (Marina de Van) Red Road (Andrea Arnold 2006) Amer (Hélène Cattat and Bruno Forzani) and Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) Female Masochism in Film avoids these reductive and simplistic approaches by focusing on the ambivalences and intricacies of this type of sexuality and subjectivity. Using the philosophical writings of Kristeva Irigaray Lacan Scarry and Bataille McPhee argues that masochism cannot and should not be considered aside from its ethical and intersubjective implications and furthermore that the aesthetic tendencies emerging across these films - obscenity extremity confrontation and a transgressive ambiguous form of beauty - are strongly related to these implications. Ultimately this complex and novel work calls upon the spectator and the theorist to reconsider normative ideas about desire corporeality fantasy and suffering. | Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics

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Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

The integration of technological innovations such as In-Memory Analytics Cloud Computing Mobile Connectivity and Social Media with business practice can enable significant competitive advantage. In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies SAP and its think tank - the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) - have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia outlines the DCF which comprises six specific capabilities: Innovation Management Transformation Management IT Excellence Customer Centricity Effective Knowledge Worker and Operational Excellence. In cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Queensland University of Technology (Australia) University of Liechtenstein (Principality of Liechtenstein) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) SAP and the BTA have been validating each capability and the corresponding maturity models based on analyzing several ’lighthouse’ case studies comprising: SAMSUNG IBM Finanz Informatik The Walt Disney Company Google Inc. HILTI AG. Digital Enterprise Transformation presents how these companies take advantage of innovative IT and how they develop their digital capabilities. On top the authors also develop and present a range of novel yet hands-on Digital Use Cases for a number of different industries which have emerged from innovative technological trends such as: Big Data Cloud Computing 3D Printing and Internet of Things. | Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

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