Greek Cinema
Texts, Histories, Identities
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
279 pages
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55 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2012
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
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
Review Quotes
David Martin-Jones, University of St Andrews
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