[Commlist] New Book: Framing the Films By Yorgos Lanthimos: The Weird in Contemporary Greek Cinema, Brecht and the Uncanny

The new book /Framing the Films By Yorgos Lanthimos: The Weird in 
Contemporary Greek Cinema, Brecht and the Uncanny/ was published 
recently by Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.

Full details of the book here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14863-6 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14863-6>



About this book

This book examines the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’s feature films. 
Lanthimos’s films have been linked to the so called Greek weird wave in 
Greek cinema, which is commonly agreed to have started with his Dogtooth 
(2009), and so they have largely been discussed as national and 
localised cinematic phenomena allegorically commenting on the Greek 
economic crisis or society. Lanthimos’s distinctive style is discussed 
in this book in terms of both national and European cinematic 
traditions, in the latter case specifically Brecht and the aesthetics of 
the uncanny.

The author provides an in-depth, thorough and systematic analysis of the 
‘weird’ mixture of uncanniness and Brecht in Lanthimos’s cinema as 
performing an uncanny transformation of Brechtian aesthetics within the 
context of Greek and international cinema. As the author proposes, the 
Brechtian aesthetics, that we also find in the modernist cinema of Theo 
Angelopoulos, in combination with the aesthetics of the uncanny and the 
unnatural narratives, is what marks, and links, formally the feature 
films by Yorgos Lanthimos. The filmmaker’s radical film form and 
subversive thematics are linked to the uncanny here, and this Brechtian 
uncanny, as the author calls it, redefines Brechtian aesthetics.

This unique book will interest scholars and students of film studies, 
media studies, modern Greek studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, 
psychology, literary studies, philosophy.


About the author

Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou is Lecturer in Film Production, University of 
Salford,UK. She studies Brechtian cinema, the cinema of Theo 
Angelopoulos, contemporary Greek cinema, European civil war films, and 
cultural memory. She has published on the above subjects in journals, 
edited collections and in her monograph European Civil War Films: 
Memory, Conflict and Nostalgia (2013, 2016). She has edited the special 
issue ‘Studies in Cultural Memory’ for the Journal of Media and Cultural 
Politics (2016) and she serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Modern 
Greek Studies.

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