Kafkaesque Cinema by Angelos Koutsourakis - 9781474498975

Name: Kafkaesque Cinema by Angelos Koutsourakis - 9781474498975
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Kafkaesque CinemaAuthor(s): Angelos Koutsourakis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474498975, 978-1474498975\nSynopsis\nFor all its familiarity as a widely used term, \""Kafkaesque cinema\"" remains an often-baffling concept that is poorly understood by film scholars. Taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges point that Kafka has modified our conception of past and future artists, and Andr Bazins suggestion that literary concepts and styles can exceed authors and \""novels from which they emanate\"", this monograph proposes a comprehensive examination of Kafkaesque Cinema in order to understand it as part of a transnational cinematic tradition rooted in Kafkas critique of modernity, which, however, extends beyond the Bohemian authors work and his historical experiences. Drawing on a range of disciplines in the Humanities including film, literary, and theatre studies, critical theory, and history, Kafkaes.