The first English-language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director, Antoinetta Angelidi Discusses diverse dimensions of Angelidi's creativity, including installations and expos, as well as her innovative theories on cinema Engages with new analytical and theoretical perspectives on Angelidi's films as artistic airings of an interdisciplinary discourse between cinema, philosophy, psychoanalysis and theories of literature Examines Antoinetta Angelidi's four full-length fiction films: Id es Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thief or Reality (2001) 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.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
"This insightful and thorough collection of essays introduces the iconoclastic work of feminist experimental filmmaker Antoinetta Angelidi to the Anglophone world. Greek weird wave fans will discover a cinematic precursor. A very welcome contribution to the history of Greek and avant-garde cinema." -Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University



Book Information
ISBN 9781474493703
Author Penny Bouska
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press