Contemporary Greek film cultures from 1990 to the present / edited by Tonia Kazakopoulou and Mikela Fotiou.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.

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 .

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 filmmaking in Greece today..