The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781501375491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Eddie Falvey

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements A Note on Titles 1. (A Late) Introduction: Framing Yorgos Lanthimos’s Weird Worlds Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UK Part I: Origins and Identity 2. Greek Screen Cultures and the Scopic Regimes of the Long 1990s: Exploring Yorgos Lanthimos’s Early Works Afroditi Nikolaidou, Panteion University, Greece 3. The Anti-Foundationalist Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: The Case of Kinetta Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, Australia Part II: Experiencing Lanthimos 4. On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, Norway 5. Bodies Out of Place: Ontological Adriftness in The Lobster Ina Karkani, Freie University Berlin, Germany 6. Notes toward a Cinema of Apathy in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UK Part III: Form and Authorship 7. Kafkaesque Themes in The Lobster Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Leeds, UK 8. Animal Instincts: Fear, Power and Obedience in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Stanley Kubrick Michael Lipiner, University of Bangor, UK and Nathan Abrams, University of Bangor, UK 9. Consider the Absurd: Uneasy Proximity in Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer Nepomuk Zettl, University of Zurich, Switzerland 10. Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors Savina Petkova, King’s College London, UK Part IV: Genre and Variation 11. Arthouse Thriller: Auteur Meets Genre in The Killing of a Sacred Deer Geoff King, Brunel University, UK 12. Myth and Mythopoeia in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos James J. Clauss, University of Washington, USA 13. Rethinking the Heritage Film: Gothic Critique in The Favourite Alex Lykidis, Montclair State University, USA Part V: Gender, Sex and Sexuality 14. Young Women’s Deadly Rebellions in the Early Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Tonia Kazakopoulou, University of Reading, UK 15. The ‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos Alice Haylett Bryan, King’s College London, UK 16. The Queer Posthumanism of The Lobster Marios Psaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Yorgos Lanthimos Primary Feature Filmography Index