Books written by Eleftheria Thanouli

  • Post-classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration

    This work presents a timely theoretical intervention in the analysis of contemporary film language. It has a truly international scope, featuring films and filmmakers from around the world.

  • Wag the Dog: A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

    'Media Event'. In Roberta Pearson and Philip Simpson (eds), Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, 272–3. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Hansen, Miriam Bratu. Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin ...

  • History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines

    With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.

  • Wag the Dog: A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age

    The film's narration challenges the established boundaries between the fiction and nonfiction tradition, as Barry Levinson, the director, embeds his interest in documentary filmmaking and complicates the issue of narrative agency in the way ...

  • History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines

    ... Volume 6. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 84–102. Gaines, M. Jane (2007), “Documentary Radicality ... Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, 3-Volume Set, Abingdon, New York: Routledge. Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (2007) ...

  • A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling

    In A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009).