POSTMODERNISTIČKA POETIKA FILMA DOGVILLE LARSA VON TRIERA
POSTMODERN POETICS OF LARS VON TRIER’S MOVIE DOGVILLE

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the feature film Dogville (2003), or more exactly, confirms the application of epic theoretic principles to the film, observing the postmodern dialogue of the older and newer medium. It defines postmodern poetics, or rather it determines the forms of the inspiration of the Danish director Lars von Trier in relation to Bertolt Brecht in order to show that the theatre inspires the film even in the modern time. Brecht’s ideas of the 1960s were discovered in all the components of the film with a telling title Dogville. Also considered were the postulates of the epic theatre like abolition of illusion, V-effect, the way of acting, and obligatory narration as a basic guideline of the epic for the purpose of observing intermediality as a version of the postmodern procedure.

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