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Subjective experience, transcendence and narratives, and repressive institutions:
a phenomenological approach for Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) and Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018).

Yannis Mitsou

Yannis Mitsou is a Teaching Associate in Film Philosophy at the Hellenic Open University. Since 2018, he has taught the Film Narrative course in the Creative Writing MA program within the Humanities Department. Since 2023, he has also been teaching Film Philosophy in the Film Studies program of the School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design (Hellenic Open University), a course for which he authored the syllabus—one of three modules he has developed for the same faculty.

In the academic year 2014–2015, he completed his MA in the Department of Film Studies (Philosophy Pathway) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London. In 2020, he was awarded a Ph.D. with distinction from the Philosophy Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with a dissertation focusing on existential themes and motifs in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.

His academic interests center on film aesthetics, with particular emphasis on phenomenology and the relationship between cinema and various traditions of European Continental philosophy.

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