Realism in Greek Cinema

Vrasidas Karalis is Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor and Chair of Department for Modern Greek at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively on Greek political life, Greek cinema, European cinema, Byzantine historiography and contemporary political philosophy. Most recently, he has authored A History of Greek Cinema (2012) and co-edited collections on Hannah Arendt and Antigone Kefala.

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• INTRODUCTION TO THE POST-WAR GREEK CINEMA 1945-2012 CHAPTER ONEThe Construction and Deconstruction of Cinematic Realism in Michael Cacoyannis’s FilmsCHAPTER TWONikos Koundouros and the cinema of anarchist realismCHAPTER THREEYannis Dalianidis and the Cryptonymies of VisualityCHAPTER FOURAn introduction to the Ocular Poetics of Theo AngelopoulosCHAPTER FIVEThe Feminine Gaze in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Cinema of Imaginative CathedralsCHAPTER SIXThe No-Wave Greek cinema of TransgressionOPTIMISTIC EPILOGUE