Meta-tragisk skuespil i Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Killing of a Sacred Deer"
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This article aims to expand on German philosopher Christoph Menke’s (b. 1958) notions of ‘meta-tragedy’ as he presents it in his book Tragic Play: Irony and Theatre from Sophocles to Beckett (2009) by exploring how the ‘theatrical’ or ‘weird’ acting style in Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2017 film The Killing of a Sacred Deer reflects the irony of the tragic plot. The article examines how this ‘weird’ acting style, characterized by staginess and stiffness, invokes the ‘presentness’ of the theatre actor, making it obvious that an actor is playing a role. I call this type of acting ‘meta-acting’. The conditions of a meta-tragedy in theatre, as outlined by Menke, are primarily defined by an ironic relation to the role of the spectator, and by a meta-theatrical plot, which centers on the workings and shortcomings of theatre to represent the insights in the tragic from Ancient Greece. In contrast, in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, this irony is transposed to the meta-acting style of the actors, resulting in a meta-tragic aesthetics in cinema.
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