Films of Lenny Abrahamson, The: A Filmmaking of Philosophy

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The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophy of provides a comprehensive study of the films of contemporary, highly critically-appraised Irish director Lenny Abrahamson. As well as considering the aesthetics, cultural reflections and philosophical concerns in the better known work of this dynamic and profoundly original Irish filmmaker, it also looks at his short film 3 Joes and his little-seen student film Mendel.

As the first sustained study of Abrahamson's engaging and cinematically rich work, Barry Monahan's book sheds light on the aesthetic wealth of the artist and connects his stylistic innovations to the context of his projects' socio-cultural background, to his own influences in modern cinema going beyond Irish film, to reflect upon the works of auteurs such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, and Kaurismaki among others and to a broader reflection on what his canon has to contribute to the philosophy of cinema, art, and questions about human existence in the twenty-first century.