Eddie Falvey completed his PhD in Film Studies at University of Exeter, UK and is now an academic researcher and educator. He has published widely on film and associated media and his most recent research focuses on spectatorship and ethics in relation to screen violence. He is author of Re-Animator (2021) and co-editor of New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror (with Joe Hickinbottom and Jonathan Wroot, 2020).

Bringing together 15 new essays, this first ever book-length collection on the cinema Yorgos Lanthimos attests to the continuing fascination with his work by scholars, critics, and audiences alike. Spanning from his explorations in 1990s Greece to his recent star-studded films, the essays examine recurrent themes and motifs – confinement, animality, absurdism, apathy, adriftness -, position his work within cultural, literary, cinematic, and philosophical contexts, and open new pathways of understanding his enigmatic, weird, films. A significant and welcome contribution.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements A Note on Titles1. (A Late) Introduction: Framing Yorgos Lanthimos’s Weird WorldsEddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UKPart I: Origins and Identity2. Greek Screen Cultures and the Scopic Regimes of the Long 1990s: Exploring Yorgos Lanthimos’s Early WorksAfroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece3. The Anti-Foundationalist Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: The Case of Kinetta Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, AustraliaPart II: Experiencing Lanthimos4. On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, Norway5. Bodies Out of Place: Ontological Adriftness in The Lobster Ina Karkani, Freie University Berlin, Germany6. Notes toward a Cinema of Apathy in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UKPart III: Form and Authorship7. Kafkaesque Themes in The Lobster Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Leeds, UK8. 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, UK9. Consider the Absurd: Uneasy Proximity in Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer Nepomuk Zettl, University of Zurich, Switzerland10. Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors Savina Petkova, King’s College London, UKPart IV: Genre and Variation11. Arthouse Thriller: Auteur Meets Genre in The Killing of a Sacred Deer Geoff King, Brunel University, UK12. Myth and Mythopoeia in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos James J. Clauss, University of Washington, USA13. Rethinking the Heritage Film: Gothic Critique in The Favourite Alex Lykidis, Montclair State University, USAPart V: Gender, Sex and Sexuality14. Young Women’s Deadly Rebellions in the Early Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Tonia Kazakopoulou, University of Reading, UK15. The ‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos Alice Haylett Bryan, King’s College London, UK16. The Queer Posthumanism of The Lobster Marios Psaras, University of Cyprus, CyprusYorgos Lanthimos Primary Feature FilmographyIndex

Eddie Falvey completed his PhD in Film Studies at University of Exeter, UK and is now an academic researcher and educator. He has published widely on film and associated media and his most recent research focuses on spectatorship and ethics in relation to screen violence. He is author of Re-Animator (2021) and co-editor of New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror (with Joe Hickinbottom and Jonathan Wroot, 2020).

Bringing together 15 new essays, this first ever book-length collection on the cinema Yorgos Lanthimos attests to the continuing fascination with his work by scholars, critics, and audiences alike. Spanning from his explorations in 1990s Greece to his recent star-studded films, the essays examine recurrent themes and motifs – confinement, animality, absurdism, apathy, adriftness -, position his work within cultural, literary, cinematic, and philosophical contexts, and open new pathways of understanding his enigmatic, weird, films. A significant and welcome contribution.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements A Note on Titles1. (A Late) Introduction: Framing Yorgos Lanthimos’s Weird WorldsEddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UKPart I: Origins and Identity2. Greek Screen Cultures and the Scopic Regimes of the Long 1990s: Exploring Yorgos Lanthimos’s Early WorksAfroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece3. The Anti-Foundationalist Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: The Case of Kinetta Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, AustraliaPart II: Experiencing Lanthimos4. On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, Norway5. Bodies Out of Place: Ontological Adriftness in The Lobster Ina Karkani, Freie University Berlin, Germany6. Notes toward a Cinema of Apathy in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UKPart III: Form and Authorship7. Kafkaesque Themes in The Lobster Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Leeds, UK8. 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, UK9. Consider the Absurd: Uneasy Proximity in Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer Nepomuk Zettl, University of Zurich, Switzerland10. Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors Savina Petkova, King’s College London, UKPart IV: Genre and Variation11. Arthouse Thriller: Auteur Meets Genre in The Killing of a Sacred Deer Geoff King, Brunel University, UK12. Myth and Mythopoeia in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos James J. Clauss, University of Washington, USA13. Rethinking the Heritage Film: Gothic Critique in The Favourite Alex Lykidis, Montclair State University, USAPart V: Gender, Sex and Sexuality14. Young Women’s Deadly Rebellions in the Early Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Tonia Kazakopoulou, University of Reading, UK15. The ‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos Alice Haylett Bryan, King’s College London, UK16. The Queer Posthumanism of The Lobster Marios Psaras, University of Cyprus, CyprusYorgos Lanthimos Primary Feature FilmographyIndex

Eddie Falvey completed his PhD in Film Studies at University of Exeter, UK and is now an academic researcher and educator. He has published widely on film and associated media and his most recent research focuses on spectatorship and ethics in relation to screen violence. He is author of Re-Animator (2021) and co-editor of New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror (with Joe Hickinbottom and Jonathan Wroot, 2020).

Bringing together 15 new essays, this first ever book-length collection on the cinema Yorgos Lanthimos attests to the continuing fascination with his work by scholars, critics, and audiences alike. Spanning from his explorations in 1990s Greece to his recent star-studded films, the essays examine recurrent themes and motifs – confinement, animality, absurdism, apathy, adriftness -, position his work within cultural, literary, cinematic, and philosophical contexts, and open new pathways of understanding his enigmatic, weird, films. A significant and welcome contribution.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements A Note on Titles1. (A Late) Introduction: Framing Yorgos Lanthimos’s Weird WorldsEddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UKPart I: Origins and Identity2. Greek Screen Cultures and the Scopic Regimes of the Long 1990s: Exploring Yorgos Lanthimos’s Early WorksAfroditi Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece3. The Anti-Foundationalist Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: The Case of Kinetta Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, AustraliaPart II: Experiencing Lanthimos4. On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, Norway5. Bodies Out of Place: Ontological Adriftness in The Lobster Ina Karkani, Freie University Berlin, Germany6. Notes toward a Cinema of Apathy in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UKPart III: Form and Authorship7. Kafkaesque Themes in The Lobster Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Leeds, UK8. 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, UK9. Consider the Absurd: Uneasy Proximity in Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer Nepomuk Zettl, University of Zurich, Switzerland10. Dog, Lobster, Deer, Rabbit: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Animal Metaphors Savina Petkova, King’s College London, UKPart IV: Genre and Variation11. Arthouse Thriller: Auteur Meets Genre in The Killing of a Sacred Deer Geoff King, Brunel University, UK12. Myth and Mythopoeia in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos James J. Clauss, University of Washington, USA13. Rethinking the Heritage Film: Gothic Critique in The Favourite Alex Lykidis, Montclair State University, USAPart V: Gender, Sex and Sexuality14. Young Women’s Deadly Rebellions in the Early Films of Yorgos Lanthimos Tonia Kazakopoulou, University of Reading, UK15. The ‘Weird’ Sex Scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos Alice Haylett Bryan, King’s College London, UK16. The Queer Posthumanism of The Lobster Marios Psaras, University of Cyprus, CyprusYorgos Lanthimos Primary Feature FilmographyIndex