Anything in any way related to The Metamorphosis. Thanks! H. Am 13.10.2010 um 14:29 schrieb Catalin Brylla: > Hi Henry, > > It would be good to have some pointers of what kafkaesque actually means (it is quite an elusive term) and/or where you set your boundaries. > > Kafkaesque tropes: > > Lost, Dexter (father figures) > Amadeus (father figure) > The Apartment (Billy Wilder; alienation, bureaucracy) > Last Year at Marienbad (the deliberate abstraction of space and time) > Twelve Monkeys (disorientation, absurdity, limited knowledge) > Chinatown (limited/subjective knowledge) > > Kafkaesque style: > > Twin Peaks > Lost Highway > The Third Man > > > > --- > > Catalin Brylla > Filmmaker - Editor > www.catalinbrylla.com > > Lecturer, Film and Video > University of Wales Newport > http://amd.newport.ac.uk > > Mobile: 07789004745 > Skype: cbrylla > > > From: Henry M. Taylor <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 1:15:34 PM > Subject: The kafkaesque in film > > *** Apologies for cross-posting *** > > > Hi everyone, > > > I'm searching for films that are not strictly speaking adaptations of Kafka's work, but kafkaesque in spirit, such as for example Cronenberg's take on Burroughs, Naked Lunch. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Henry > > > > ******************* > > Dr. Henry M. Taylor > Film Studies > University of Zurich > Phone +41 +44 272 21 61 > Mobile +41 +77 450 46 35 > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > New publications: > http://www.schnitt.de/213,5739,01 > http://cinetext.philo.at/magazine/taylor/mamet.html > http://www.amazon.de/Ikonen-Helden-Außenseiter-Film-Biographie/dp/3552054537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274258174&sr=1-1 > http://www.amazon.de/Rolle-Lebens-Henry-McKean-Taylor/dp/3894725087/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274258418&sr=1-2 > http://www.cinemascope.it/Issue%205/Articoli_n5/Articoli_n5_05/05.html > http://www.amazon.de/Parallax-View-Zur-Mediologie-Verschwörung/dp/3770549066/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284978819&sr=1-1 > http://henrymtaylor.wetpaint.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] ** > > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to:[log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] ** * * Film-Philosophy After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **