Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Πολιτισμικές και Κινηματογραφικές ΣπουδέςLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Supervisors info:
Εύα Στεφανή, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μ.Μ.Ε., ΕΚΠΑ.
Original Title:
«Βία και εξουσία στο έργο του Γιώργου Λάνθιμου.»
Translated title:
"Violence and power in Yiorgos Lanthimos films"
Summary:
The aim of this paper is to make an effort to highlight the underlying violence and power inherent in three film projects by Yiorgos Lanthimos, "Dogtooth" (2009), "Lobster" (2015) and "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" (2017), as well as the emergence of the main subject, which is related to the extent to which the violence and power enshrined in his films and more generally in the modern Greek wave, as an allegory of the economic and socio-political crisis in which Greece has undergone in recent years, through specific authoritarian forces. Using methodological tools as the theory of the author and secondarily formalistic approach and cultural studies are seeking to pose questions relating to thematologies and stylistic obsessions of Yiorgos Lanthimos.
For this purpose the paper was divided into six chapters. The first one, presents the ways in which violence and power transform the heroes, while the next chapter penetrates the rotation of the faces in the daily roles of the protagonists. Subsequently, the third chapter of the paper deals with the institution of the family, by bringing it into a miniature of modern society. The fourth part reveals the effects of Rene Girard's mimetic theory on the development of the authoritarian forces of Υiorgos Lanthimos, while the next chapter presents the author's style through the techniques employed. The sixth and final chapter of this paper, reflects the impact of authoritarian forces in the lives of heroes. The study concludes with the presentation of the above analysis conclusions.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Dogtooth, Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yiorgos Lanthimos, violence ,power