Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners

by Mette Hjort

Book Overview

Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig's Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of Europe's most noteworthy women directors. Danish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990449
• ISBN13: 9780295990446
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 7.5"