Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word

by James Schamus

If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal; it was lambasted on its release for its lugubrious pace, wooden acting, and old-fashioned, stuffy milieu. Only later, when a younger generation of critics came to its defense, did the method in what appeared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988541
• ISBN13: 9780295988542
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.0"