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Author: Vrasidas Karalis
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1441194479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is a detailed historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010).
Author: Lydia Papadimitriou
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781841504339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 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.
Author: Dimitris Papanikolaou
Publisher:
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781474436328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vrasidas Karalis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1441112782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair. Greek cinema started slowly and then collapsed; for several years it struggled to reinvent itself, produced its first mature works, then collapsed completely and almost vanished. Because of such a complex historical trajectory no comprehensive survey of the development of Greek cinema has been written in English. This book is the first to explore its development and the contexts that defined it by focusing on its main films, personalities and theoretical discussions. A History of Greek Cinema focuses on the early decades and the attempts to establish a "national" cinema useful to social cohesion and national identity. It also analyses the problems and the dilemmas that many Greek directors faced in order to establish a distinct Greek cinema language and presents the various stages of development throughout the background of the turbulent political history of the country. The book combines historical analysis and discussions about cinematic form in to construct a narrative history about Greek cinematic successes and failures.
Author: Jon Solomon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780300083378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Achilleas Hadjikyriacou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-10-24
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1441144277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 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.
Author: Philip E. Phillis
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-31
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781474437035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Angelos Koutsourakis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0748697969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing 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.
Author: Vrasidas Karalis
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021-09-17
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1800731973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with his first film Reconstruction, released in 1970, Theo Angelopoulos’s notoriously complex cinematic language has long explored Greece’s contemporary history and questioned European culture and society. The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos offers a detailed study and critical discussion of the acclaimed filmmaker’s cinematic aesthetics as they developed over his career, exploring different styles through which Greek and European history, identity, and loss have been visually articulated throughout his oeuvre, as well as his impact on both European and global cinema.
Author: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-11-28
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0191669865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
