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Angelos K is guilty ... of writing a standout book uncovering the widespread influence of the Kafkaesque on cinema. Remarkable in its insightful originality, Koutsourakis's engaging analysis skillfully demonstrates how the Kafkaesque perpetually (re-)emerges in film history to critique the historical contradictions of modernity and its attendant crisis of liberalism. This compelling thesis is deftly woven through a wide range of fascinating examples, as historically rich as they are geographically surprising. The refreshing and unique take on global political cinema found herein is thus a mental salve for a contemporary era of overwork and alienation - conditions which Kafka knew only too well. That is what makes this a must-read book, as it may be all that can save us from waking up to find we have suddenly metamorphosed into giant cockroaches.--Professor David Martin-Jones, The University of Glasgow In times when references to the Kafkaesque have become inflationary, Angelos Koutsourakis provides a much-needed re-examination of this term. The scope of his study, which covers global cinema from the 1920s to the present day, is hugely impressive, but crucially, this is not a straightforward reception history. By widening the definition of the Kafkaesque to include Kafka's cinematic precursors as well as his successors, he deftly shows how this concept can be mobilised in a critical capacity, highlighting film's pivotal role at the intersections of aesthetics, politics and history. --Professor Carolin Duttlinger, The University of Oxford

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Angelos Koutsourakis is an Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (2013) and the co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020), and The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015).

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