[Commlist] CFP: The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos

The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos

Edited by Eddie Falvey, University of Exeter/Plymouth College of Art

The cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos is emerging as one of the most exciting 
bodies of work in contemporary film. Lanthimos broke into feature 
filmmaking with the romantic-comedy My Best Friend before going on to 
direct his own screenplay with the considerably more experimental 
Kinetta, a film that foreshadowed much of his later work. Lanthimos 
found international acclaim with Dogtooth in 2009, which was followed by 
a string of festival hits that include Alps, The Lobster, The Killing of 
a Sacred Deer, and The Favourite. While Lanthimos is mostly known for 
his work as a director, he has also notably served as actor and producer 
in collaborator Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg. There are arguments 
to be made that Lanthimos’s cinema demonstrates clear authorial 
continuity between texts, and is recognisable for its contravention of 
aesthetic, thematic and generic boundaries. Across an impressive body of 
work, Lanthimos has demonstrated a sustained preoccupation with trauma, 
grief, loss, loneliness, sex and violence that continue to be the 
thematic currency of his work.  Given the recent success of The 
Favourite, and coinciding with Lanthimos's now considerable status 
within international film discourse, it is high time that he is given 
the scholarly scrutiny that his cinema deserves. In keeping with the 
range of perspectives that Lanthimos’s cinema invites, an edited 
collection of writing will allow for an evocative survey of approaches 
to one of the most distinct filmographies in contemporary cinema.
This edited collection has interest from a major publisher.
Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to:
 •	Any of Lanthimos’ feature films
•	Lanthimos and film philosophy
•	Cognitive approaches to Lanthimos
•	National identity and/or history
•	Violence and/or sexual violence
•	Genre, convention and experimentation
•	Lanthimos and auteur theory
•	Lanthimos and intimacy
•	Lanthimos and hyperrealism
•	Lanthimos and Greek cinema
•	Aesthetic approaches to Lanthimos’s cinema
•	Feminist approaches to Lanthimos
•	Gender, sexuality and queer identity
•	Affect theory and performance
•	Political and/or ethical approaches to Lanthimos
•	Lanthimos and narrative theory
•	Lanthimos and absurdism •	Lanthimos and sacrifice
•	Lanthimos and metaphor •	Trauma, loss and grief
•	Lanthimos as producer and/or performer

Submission details

I would like to invite chapter proposals of approximately 250 words, 
accompanied by a short biographical statement. The deadline for 
ab¬stract submissions is July 26, 2019. Please send your proposals 
and/or any inquiries to (lanthimoseditedcollection /at/ gmail.com). Accepted 
contributors will be expected to submit their full chap¬ters of 
6,000-8,000 words (including endnotes) by January 31, 2020.

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