Greek Film Noir /
Investigates how film noir has been received, adapted and developed in Greece, from the 1940s to the presentTraces the evolution of a scholarly neglected - in the Greek context - film genre; it introduces an original corpus of texts extending from the 1940s to the present Offers a panoramic overview...
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Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2022.
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Σειρά: | Traditions in World Cinema
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I. PARTNERS IN CRIME: RECEPTIONS, AFFINITIES, HYBRIDITIES
- 1 There Will Be Ogres: The Interstitial Aesthetics of Film Noir in the Early Films of Nikos Koundouros
- 2 Of Mice, Men and Greek Film Noir: The Little Mouse
- 3 Historical Coincidence or Generic Cross-Pollination? The Angry Hills and the Birth of Film Noir in Greece
- 4 Noir Backstage: Yannis Maris from Page to Screen
- 5 Dark Cinema, Dark Sounds: Mimis Plessas and the Integration of Jazz into Greek Film Noir
- 6 Fatal Absences and Female Gazes: Alternative Femininities in Greek Film Noir and the Psychological Thriller
- 7 Bums and Dark Alleys: Constructing Queerness in a Mid-1960s Greek Noir
- PART II. POLITICAL ASPECTS AND TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE GREEK NEO-NOIR
- 8 A Dark Intrigue of Murder: Kierion and Reconstruction, or Film Noir as Politics
- 9 Neo-Noir and 'Becoming-Murderer' in Tonia Marketaki's John the Violent
- 10 The Unbearable Queerness of Singapore Sling: Towards a Queer Ethics and Politics of Irony
- 11 Hong Kong and Athens: Contested Spaces of the Global and the Local in the Neo-Noir of John Woo and Alexis Alexiou
- 12 Darker Worlds Come in Small Packages: Neo-Noir Sensibility in Greek Cypriot Short Films
- 13 Greek Sleuths and Tough Cops: Noir Masculinities in Television Crime Shows (1992-2020)
- 14 Mediterranean Film Noir: Twilight Falls on mare nostrum
- Appendix: Greek Films and Television Series/Shows Featuring Dominant Noir or Neo-Noir Tropes
- Index