The cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos films, form, philosophy / edited by Eddie Falvey.

Other author Falvey, Eddie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Descriptionxi, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Contents (A late) introduction : framing Yorgos Lanthimos's weird worlds / Eddie Falvey -- Greek screen cultures and the scopic regimes of the long 1990s : exploring Yorgos Lanthimos's early works / Afroditi Nikolaidou -- The anti-foundationalist cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : the case of Kinetta / Vrasidas Karalis -- On confinement, sameness and grieving : Yorgos Lanthimos's Alps / Asbjørn Grønstad -- Bodies out of place : ontological adriftness in The lobster / Ina Karkani -- Notes toward a cinema of apathy in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos / Eddie Falvey -- Kafkaesque themes in The lobster / Angelos Koutsourakis -- Animal instincts : fear, power and obedience in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Stanley Kubrick / Michael Lipiner and Nathan Abrams -- Consider the absurd : uneasy proximity in Dogtooth, The lobster, and The killing of a sacred deer / Nepomuk Zettl -- Dog, lobster, deer, rabbit : Yorgos Lanthimos's animal metaphors / Savina Petkova -- Arthouse thriller : auteur meets genre in The killing of a sacred deer / Geoff King -- Myth and mythopoeia in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos / James J. Clauss -- Rethinking the heritage film : gothic critique in The favourite / Alex Lykidis -- Young women's deadly rebellions in the early films of Yorgos Lanthimos / Tonia Kazakopoulou -- The 'weird' sex scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos / Alice Haylett Bryan -- The queer posthumanism of The lobster / Marios Psaras.
Abstract "The first book dedicated to the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos, offering a range of critical approaches to his work"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2021060140
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