Contemporary Greek film cultures from 1990 to the present /

Contemporary Greek film cultures from 1990 to the present /

This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema explores key trends over the past 25 years, including documentary and avant-garde filmmaking, art house and popular cinema. The book seeks to highlight the continuities, mutual influences and common contexts that inform, shape and inspire...

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Other Authors: Kazakopoulou, Tonia (επιμελήτρια), Fotiou, Mikela (επιμελήτρια)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Peter Lang, 2017.
Series:New studies in European cinema, vol. 21
Subjects:
Κινηματογραφική βιομηχανία > Ελλάδα
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction (Tonia Kazakopoulou)
  • Works Cited
  • 1 Short Voyages to the Land of Gregarious Animals: On Political Aesthesia in Sto Lyko and Sweetgrass (Ulrich Meurer / Maria Oikonomou)
  • The End (One)
  • The Land of the People
  • Truth
  • Displacement Activity
  • The Animal: Sidewards/Downwards
  • Diagram
  • Lass mich in Ruhe meine Schafe weiden
  • The End (Two)
  • Works Cited
  • 2 Constructing the Urban Cinematic Landscape: Theo Angelopoulos's Thessaloniki (Stavros Alifragkis)
  • Introduction
  • The City of Poetic Contemplation: Thessaloniki in Voyage to Cythera
  • The City of Romantic Escapism: Thessaloniki in the Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
  • Angelopoulos's Filmic City: A Composite Landscape
  • Hypertopos
  • Urban waiting rooms
  • Epilogue: The Mythical Landscape of the City
  • Acknowledgements
  • Works Cited
  • 3 The Spatio-Temporality of the Avant-Gardes: Feminist Avant-Garde U-Topoi in Greek Cinema from Transition to Crisis (Rea Walldén)
  • Spatio-Temporal Questions Regarding Avant-Garde Art and their Application to Cinema
  • The Example of Avant-Garde Cinema in Greece: Two Turning Points
  • Feminist Film U-Topoi: Women's Worlds
  • Feminist Film U-Topoi: The Temporality of Initiation
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • 4 This Tongue Is Not my Own: Dogtooth, Phobia and the Paternal Metaphor (Ben Tyrer)
  • Home / School / Garden / Prison
  • Method and Madness
  • Psychosis, Perversion, Neurosis
  • Phobia
  • The Mythic Function
  • Castle Doctrine
  • Les vidéos volées
  • Bruce, in her Unbearable Splendour
  • Schrödinger's Dog
  • Dogtongue
  • Works Cited
  • 5 Family, Gender and the Emotional Economy in Tsemberopoulos's The Enemy Within (Angie Voela)
  • Introduction
  • Fathers and Family Values
  • Louisa's Silence
  • Pity, Sympathy and Beyond
  • Works Cited
  • 6 In the Name of the Father: Rituals of Gender and Democracy in Olga Malea's First Time Godfather (Tonia Kazakopoulou)
  • Figures of Speech
  • Eat, Praise, Vote
  • It's all Greek to Alex
  • In Their Own Terms: Modernizing Discourses
  • Works Cited
  • 7 No Country for Old Faggots: Exploring Queer Utopias in Panos Koutras's Strella (Marios Psaras)
  • Works Cited
  • 8 A Touch of Spice: Postmodern Identities and the Construction of the Other through Film Music (Nick Poulakis)
  • Works Cited
  • 9 The Albanian in the Room: Revisiting Greek Hospitality in From the Snow and Plato's Academy (Philip Phillis)
  • Into the Era of Migration and Transnational Cinema
  • Imagined Community, Imagined Fatherland: Repatriation of the Ethnic Greek Community in From the Snow
  • You Will Never Become a Greek: Reinforcing Eurocentrism in Plato's Academy
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • 10 'White Ethnicity' and the Challenge of Independent Greek Films to Greek Stereotypes in the Global Imaginary (Taso G. Lagos)
  • Branding and the Global Imaginary
  • The Tribulations of White Ethnicity
  • Challenging Greek Stereotypes and White Ethnicity
  • Is Greece Becoming Less 'White Ethnic'?
  • Works Cited
  • 11 Marketing Communications in the Greek Film Industry: Rethinking Contemporary Greek Cinema (Afroditi Nikolaidou)
  • Introduction: Film Marketing from a Film History Perspective
  • Greek Film Marketing within Greek Film Studies
  • End of an Era: 'Eventizing' the Release
  • Safe Sex: Branding as a Theme
  • From Communication Practices to Strategic Communication: The Post-2008 Years
  • Love in the End: From Product Placement to Crowdsourcing
  • The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas: Transmediating the Narrative
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • 12 The 'New Greek Cinema' before the 'Greek New Wave': The Case of The Only Journey of his Life (Erato Basea)
  • Introduction
  • The Only Journey of his Life as a Film Adaptation and a Literary Biopic
  • A 'Literary' Film Adaptation
  • From the Death of the Author to the Confirmation of the National Auteur
  • The Confirmation of the 'New Greek Cinema' before the 'Greek New Wave'
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Works Cited
  • 13 Nikolaidis's Diptych Those Who Loved a Corpse: A 'Pasticcio of Pastiches' (Mikela Fotiou)
  • Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse
  • See You in Hell, My Darling: A Necroromance
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • Works Cited
  • 14 The Ethics of Heterogeneity and Experimentation: Teaching Film Direction in the Film School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Antoinetta Angelidi with Rea Walldén)
  • The First University Film School in Greece
  • Filmmaking Poetics from Learning to Teaching and Back: A Life-Path
  • The Multiple Meanings of Heterogeneity and Experimentation
  • Film Direction Modules and Student Films: Experiments and Polyphony
  • Conclusions for Apprentice Wizards
  • Works Cited
  • Legal and administrative texts
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index .

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