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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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Πούπου, Άννα, 1977- (επιμελήτρια), Φέσσας, Νικίτας (επιμελητής), Χάλκου, Μαρία (επιμελήτρια)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
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