History of Greek Cinema

History of Greek Cinema

Author: Vrasidas Karalis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1441194479

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The book is a detailed historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010).


Greek Cinema

Greek Cinema

Author: Lydia Papadimitriou

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781841504339

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Covering the silent era to the present, this wide-ranging collection of essays examines Greek cinema as an aesthetic, cultural, and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse range of audiences. Using a range of methodological tools, the authors investigate the ever-shifting forms and meanings at work within Greece's national cinema and locate it within the booming interdisciplinary study of European cinema at large. Designed for undergraduate courses in film studies, this well-researched volume fills a substantial gap in the market for critical works on Greek cinema in English.


The Ancient World in the Cinema

The Ancient World in the Cinema

Author: Jon Solomon

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780300083378

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This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.


Ancient Greek Women in Film

Ancient Greek Women in Film

Author: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0191669865

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This volume examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history. It discusses how these female figures are resurrected on the big screen by different filmmakers during different historical moments, and are therefore embedded within a narrative which serves various purposes, depending on the director of the film, its screenwriters, the studio, the country of its origin, and the sociopolitical context at the time of its production. Using a diverse array of hermeneutic approaches (such as gender theory, feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, viewer-response theory, and personal voice criticism), the essays aim to cast light on cinema's investments in the classical past and decode the mechanisms whereby the women under examination are extracted from their original context and are brought to life to serve as vehicles for the articulation of modern ideas, concerns, and cultural trends. The volume thus aims to investigate not only how antiquity on the screen depicts, and in this process distorts, compresses, contests, and revises, antiquity on the page but also, more crucially, why the medium follows such eclectic representational strategies vis-à-vis the classical world.


Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture

Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture

Author: Gideon Nisbet

Publisher: Bristol Phoenix Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781904675129

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This revised and expanded second edition responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture, and particularly the impact of the film 300 (2006).Why, in a century of film-making, have so few versions of the story of Alexander the Great - or that of Troy's fall - made it to the big screen? In the aftermath of Gladiator (2000), with Hollywood studios rushing to revisit the ancient world with Troy and Alexander (both 2004), this question takes on renewed significance.Nisbet unpacks the ideas that continue to make Greece hot property - often too hot for Hollywood to handle. His lively explorations, which assume no prior expertise in classical or film studies, will appeal to all with an interest in 'reception': the present day's re-use and re-invention of the past.


Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema

Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema

Author: Achilleas Hadjikyriacou

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1441144277

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Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social transformations which influenced gender identities and relations. During the same period, Greece also witnessed an unparalleled bloom in cinema productions. Based on the recently established paradigm that cinema and popular culture viewed as social institutions can inform a historical study, Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema explores the relationship between Greek cinema and the society within which it was created and viewed. The book's double analytical perspective on cinema and masculinity advances both the study of cinema and popular culture as historical sources, and of masculinity and gender relations as valid categories of historical analysis. Cinema as a medium of representation, not only managed to reflect on these issues, it also provided a whole new field for their interpretation. This is the first study to explore the dramatic transformation of masculinity and gender roles, as represented in Greek cinema during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s.


A History of Greek Cinema

A History of Greek Cinema

Author: Vrasidas Karalis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1441135006

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The book is a detailed historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010).


Greek Cinema and Migration, 1991-2016

Greek Cinema and Migration, 1991-2016

Author: Philip E. Phillis

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-31

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781474437035

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The book provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the capacity of contemporary Greek cinema to challenge the logic of Fortress Europe.


Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos

Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos

Author: Angelos Koutsourakis

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0748697969

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Bringing together established and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, the collection's unique contribution is to show how Angelopoulos created singularly intricate forms whose aesthetic contours invite us to think critically about modern history.