ZEITSCHRIFTENARTIKEL
Versuch und Irrtum
Film als experimentelle Anordnung
Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Bd. 57 (2012), Iss. 2: S. 126–135
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Bibliografische Daten
Engell, Lorenz
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Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
Postscriptum
Röttgers, Kurt
2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16205-4_14 [Citations: 0]
Abstract
The contribution explores Lars von Triers meta-filmic comedy The Boss of it all, starting from Jean Francois Lyotard’s reflections on the experiment in art and philosophy, and following the lines of Stanley Cavell’s assumptions on »genre as medium« and on comedy as reflexive form of film genre. The Boss of it all unfolds the experimental character of genre film, fi lm genre, and comedy. The fi lm presents itself as a paradoxical experimental object, detaching itself from its author, from genre rules and spectator’s expectations. It acquires an independent status of action and reflection, and precisely by this looks at itself as a product of the orderings which it puts into question. This is described here under the aspect of ontology as well as in terms of action theory with the help of the concept of the agent.