TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The melancholy condition of realism: (With notes on Lars von Trier's Melancholia)
JO  - Orbis Litterarum
A1  - Jukić, T.
SP  - 191
EP  - 203
VL  - 76
IS  - 4
N2  - Drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud (1891, 1917) and Carl Schmitt (1956), I show how twentieth-century accounts of melancholia, in psychoanalysis and in political theory, entail a presentation of the world that dovetails with nineteenth-century realism. This suggests that realism is fundamentally a response to the melancholy condition that underlies modernity, and could be analyzed as such; it also suggests that realism persists in the twentieth century as a peculiar configuration of melancholia. Erwin Panofsky's film theory (1936) exemplifies this position. Based staunchly in realism, Panofsky's film theory is consistent with his comprehensive early exploration of melancholia (1923); no less than the rationale of cinema is thus shown to be moored in the melancholy condition of realism. It is a juncture explored by Lars von Trier in Melancholia (2011): while studiously arranging his cinematic study of melancholia around realism, Trier implies that film's likely neglect of realism in the twenty-first century amounts to cinematic suicide and, consequently, to the end of the modern world. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0105-7510
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oli.12311
ID  - ref1
ER  -