ReFocus: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi

Penny Bouska, Sotiris Petridis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474493703 (ISBN)

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The first English-language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director, Antoinetta Angelidi

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001), which have been screened at international film festivals and contemporary art museums.
Angelidi’s work has become synonymous with Greek Experimental Cinema, while her films and her theoretical writings have been the subject of numerous film courses, critical essays and retrospectives. The inversion and juxtaposition of codes, as well as the dream-mechanism and the uncanny, comprise her main creative strategies. The complexity of cinematic heterogeneity and the narrative multiplicity of different filmic elements which characterize her work are examined in depth in this edited collection dedicated to Antoinetta Angelidi’s oeuvre.

Penny Bouska is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her doctoral thesis, The Uncanny: a psychoanalytical study in cinema (2016), awarded by Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), was made under the supervision of Antoinetta Angelidi. Her research areas include interdisciplinary studies on cinema and theory of psychoanalysis, applied aesthetics and experimental cinema. She directed a long length film Common Ground (2016) which was screened at 57th international film festival of Thessaloniki. Sotiris Petridis is a Postdoc Researcher at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies (Aristotle University). His research interests are film and television genres, horror and slasher films, screenwriting theory and practice, audiovisual rights and copyright laws, viral marketing, and the new ways of film and television promotion. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film Academy.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Prolegomenon - Penny Bouska

Part 1: Feminism and the Avant-Garde

1. Weird Mothers: The Feminist Uncanniness of Antoinetta Angelidi’s Topos - Rea Walldén

2. "Every Element in a Film Narrates": The Complex Language of Heterogeneity in Idées Fixes/Dies Irae as a (Feminist) Critique to the Practice of Methodological Categorisation in Avant-Garde Film History - Fil Ieropoulos

Part 2: Concepts and Interpretations

3. Thief or Reality: Visual Dialectics on Death Instincts - Penny Bouska

4. Childhood, Desire and identity in The Hours - Christina Adamou

5. Erased Ghost: The deriddean spectrality of Angelidi’s signs in Ιdées Fixes / Dies Irae - Ioannis Mazarakis

6. The cinematic sublime in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Thief or Reality - Evdokia Stefanopoulou

Part 3: Means and Media

7. From orchestrated noise to elaborated silence: The audiovisuality of Antoinetta Angelidi’s films - Electra Venaki

8. Dreyer, Magritte and Other Obsessions: Figural Invention in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Idées Fixes Dies Irae - Variations on the Same Theme - Kyriakos Dionysopoulos

9. Antoinetta Angelidi: The Visual Gaze - Calliope (Pepy) Rigopoulou

Interview with Antoinetta Angelidi

Giving Birth to Her Films: Wandering with Antoinetta Angelidi - Rea Walldén

Appendix: Visual material selected by Antoinetta Angelidi

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Zusatzinfo	25 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-13	9781474493703 / 9781474493703
Zustand	Neuware