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Allegory and Gesture in Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Dogtooth and Alps

dc.creatorHoban, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-17T11:14:52Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractYorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011) examine the conditioning and possibilities of self-determination of the subject within microcosms that function as national, neoliberal and biopolitical allegories. Through a performative use of allegory, both films illuminate ways of constructing and instrumentalizing meaning and ideology. The deindividuation within each microcosm and the attempts at emancipation of each protagonist are attested by bodily and cinematic gestures. Their necessary alienation from their microcosm lastly leaves each protagonist in a suspended state between potentiality and subjectivity without a subject. I argue that these states point towards the necessity of radical change regarding the allegorically implicated societal dynamics and exhibit cinema’s potency both to keep viewers oblivious to their living conditions, and to aid in the subversion of these conditions.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23706
dc.identifier.urihttp://ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffk-journal&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=243
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/25549
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAVINUS
dc.publisher.placeHamburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2512-8086
dc.relation.ispartofseriesffk Journal
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subjectMicrocosmen
dc.subjectAllegoryen
dc.subjectCinemaen
dc.subjectSubjectivityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personYorgos Lanthimos
dc.subject.workDOGTOOTH
dc.subject.workALPS
dc.titleAllegory and Gesture in Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Dogtooth and Alpsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2025-03-18T02:31:00
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffk-journal&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=243
local.source.epage82
local.source.issue10
local.source.spage64
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/1011852519
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975410
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075918
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2062989

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