{"product_id":"9783032148629","title":"Framing the Films by Yorgos Lanthimos: The Weird in Contemporary Greek Cinema, Brecht and the Uncanny","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFraming the Films by Yorgos Lanthimos: The Weird in Contemporary Greek Cinema, Brecht and the Uncanny\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKosmidou, Eleftheria Rania\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eDogtooth \u003c\/em\u003e(2009)\u003c\/span\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eBrechtian uncanny\u003c\/em\u003e, as the author calls it, redefines Brechtian aesthetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003eThis unique book will interest scholars and students of film studies, media studies, modern Greek studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, psychology, literary studies, philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-01-14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032148629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-14863-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 148\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44804282417292,"sku":"9783032148629","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032148629.jpg?v=1773315891","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032148629","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}