Kafkaesque Cinema wins Best Book in Film Studies

We're delighted to share that Angelos Koutsourakis, author of Kafkaesque Cinema, has been awarded Best Book in Film Studies by the Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies.

What the judges had to say:

"The monograph demonstrates that Kafka’s critique of modernity has resulted in a distinctive aesthetic sensibility, recurrent tropes and themes that have influenced a surprising variety of filmmakers across different decades, countries and continents. Koutsourakis proposes that Kafkaesque films are either directly in dialogue with Kafka’s writings or draw on other literary sources that resonate with Kafka’s stylistic and narrative approach to the modern experience of alienation, the crisis of liberalism and individual agency. Transnational in scope, the book combines political-cultural theory, with textual, formal and narrative analysis to construct a historically and culturally wide-ranging corpus of films. Kafkaesque Cinema is impressively erudite and develops an original argument about the transnational impact of Kafka’s writings on cinema, bringing to light hitherto neglected relations, interconnections and long-lasting legacies."

About the award

The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies is yearly awarded to publications that advance transnational research in the fields of film and theatre studies and employ innovative methods in the humanities. The Juries awarding these works were composed of Professors Daniela Berghahn, Royal Holloway, University of London; Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe University, Frankfurt; and Andrea Virginás, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (for film studies); and Professors Naoko Kogo, Osaka University; Athena Stourna, University of the Peloponnese, Athens; and Ilinca Todoruț, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (for theatre studies).  

More about the book

Angelos Koutsourakis argues that Kafkaesque cinema is a critical category that can enable us to consider the interconnections between historical events, politics and aesthetics in films across the globe.

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