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.

• 1.  Introduction.- 2. The ‘Local’ and the ‘National’: Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), Alps (2011).- 3. From The ‘National’ to The ‘International’: An Uncanny Visual Language in The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).- 4. Towards an Accessible Weirdness? The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023).- 5. Instead of a Conclusion.

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.

• 1.  Introduction.- 2. The ‘Local’ and the ‘National’: Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), Alps (2011).- 3. From The ‘National’ to The ‘International’: An Uncanny Visual Language in The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).- 4. Towards an Accessible Weirdness? The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023).- 5. Instead of a Conclusion.

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.

• 1.  Introduction.- 2. The ‘Local’ and the ‘National’: Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), Alps (2011).- 3. From The ‘National’ to The ‘International’: An Uncanny Visual Language in The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).- 4. Towards an Accessible Weirdness? The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023).- 5. Instead of a Conclusion.