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Chapter 3 brings to bear on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth (2009) key ideas and texts from contemporary queer critique of the patriarchal family and traditional kinship bonds, such as Judith Butler’s Antigone’s Claim. The chapter examines how the film’s idiosyncratic construction of a secluded, authoritarian and highly oppressive familial space serves to deconstruct the historical ideological and material production of the family as both a metaphor for the nation and its structural quintessence. In addition, the film’s unconventional form creates a subversive aesthetic space to interrogate the concept of narrativity itself and investigate the medium’s own collusion in the reproduction of the canonical familial and national narratives.
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Psaras, M. (2016). Dogtooth: Of Narrativity. In: The Queer Greek Weird Wave. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40310-6_3
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