Covering the silent era to the present, this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic, cultural, and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse range of audiences. Using a range of methodological tools, the authors investigate the ever-shifting forms and meanings at work within Greece’s national cinema and locate it within the booming interdisciplinary study of European cinema at large. Designed for undergraduate courses in film studies, this well-researched volume fills a substantial gap in the market for critical works on Greek cinema in English.
Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis
Part I: Approaches
1. A Touch of Spice: Mobility and Popularity
Dimitris Eleftheriotis
2. Is There Such a Thing as a Greek Blockbuster? The Revival of Contemporary Greek Cinema
Michalis Kokonis
3. Gloves and Moustaches: Masculinity and Gender Relations in the Film Ta Kitrina Gantia/Yellow Gloves
Yvonne Alexia Kosma
Part II: Histories
4. Coloniality and Early Greek Film Culture
Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
5. Open-air Cinema in Athens: The Rise of the City and Urban Identities
Yiannis Christofides and Melissanthi Saliba
6. Silent Greek Cinema: In Search of Academic Recognition
Eliza Anna Delveroudi
7. Definitely Maybe: Possible Narratives of the History of Greek Cinema
Maria A. Stassinopoulou
Part III: Identity
8. Music, Dance and Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical
Lydia Papadimitriou
9. Carnivalized Greekness: Stavros Tsiolis’ Please, Ladies Don’t Cry
Nikos Leros
10. Cacoyannis’ Stella: Representation and Reception of a Patriarchal Anomaly
Achilleas Hadjikyriacou
11. Greek Cinema Without Greece: Investigating Alternative Formations
Gary Needham
Part IV: Aesthetics
12. Film Style in Old Greek Cinema: The Case of Dinos Dimopoulos
Eleftheria Thanouli
13. Reflections on Pain, Loss and Memory: Takis Kanellopoulos’ Fiction Films of the 1960s
Panayiota Mini
14. The Geography of Neo-Realism in Greece: City Images, Urban Representations and Aesthetics of Space
Anna Poupou
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction
Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis
Part I: Approaches
1. A Touch of Spice: Mobility and Popularity
Dimitris Eleftheriotis
2. Is There Such a Thing as a Greek Blockbuster? The Revival of Contemporary Greek Cinema
Michalis Kokonis
3. Gloves and Moustaches: Masculinity and Gender Relations in the Film Ta Kitrina Gantia/Yellow Gloves
Yvonne Alexia Kosma
Part II: Histories
4. Coloniality and Early Greek Film Culture
Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
5. Open-air Cinema in Athens: The Rise of the City and Urban Identities
Yiannis Christofides and Melissanthi Saliba
6. Silent Greek Cinema: In Search of Academic Recognition
Eliza Anna Delveroudi
7. Definitely Maybe: Possible Narratives of the History of Greek Cinema
Maria A. Stassinopoulou
Part III: Identity
8. Music, Dance and Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical
Lydia Papadimitriou
9. Carnivalized Greekness: Stavros Tsiolis’ Please, Ladies Don’t Cry
Nikos Leros
10. Cacoyannis’ Stella: Representation and Reception of a Patriarchal Anomaly
Achilleas Hadjikyriacou
11. Greek Cinema Without Greece: Investigating Alternative Formations
Gary Needham
Part IV: Aesthetics
12. Film Style in Old Greek Cinema: The Case of Dinos Dimopoulos
Eleftheria Thanouli
13. Reflections on Pain, Loss and Memory: Takis Kanellopoulos’ Fiction Films of the 1960s
Panayiota Mini
14. The Geography of Neo-Realism in Greece: City Images, Urban Representations and Aesthetics of Space
Anna Poupou
Notes on Contributors
Index