Greek Cinema

Yannis Tzioumakis is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on aspects of American cinema such as the history of Orion Pictures, film authorship in contemporary Hollywood andfilm acting in independent cinema. Lydia Papadimitriou is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.

'The adventurous explorations, the sound suggestions and the vast research show that Papadimitriou and Tziounakis’ volume institutes a new beginning for the re-evaluation of Greek Cinema.' – Senses of Cinema, Vrasidas Karalis

• Introduction – Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis Part I: ApproachesChapter 1: A Touch of Spice: Mobility and Popularity – Dimitris EleftheriotisChapter 2: Is There Such a Thing as a Greek Blockbuster? The Revival of Contemporary Greek Cinema – Michalis KokonisChapter 3: Gloves and Moustaches: Masculinity and Gender Relations in the Film Ta Kitrina Gantia/Yellow Gloves – Yvonne Alexia KosmaPart II: Histories Chapter 4: Coloniality and Early Greek Film Culture – Vassiliki TsitsopoulouChapter 5: Open-air Cinema in Athens: The Rise of the City and Urban Identities – Yiannis Christofides and Melissanthi SalibaChapter 6: Silent Greek Cinema: In Search of Academic Recognition – Eliza Anna DelveroudiChapter 7: Definitely Maybe: Possible Narratives of the History of Greek Cinema – Maria A. StassinopoulouPart III: IdentityChapter 8: Music, Dance and Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical – Lydia PapadimitriouChapter 9: Carnivalized Greekness: Stavros Tsiolis’ Please, Ladies Don’t Cry – Nikos LerosChapter 10: Cacoyannis’ Stella: Representation and Reception of a Patriarchal Anomaly – Achilleas HadjikyriacouChapter 11: Greek Cinema Without Greece: Investigating Alternative Formations – Gary NeedhamPart IV: Aesthetics Chapter 12: Film Style in Old Greek Cinema: The Case of Dinos Dimopoulos – Eleftheria ThanouliChapter 13: Reflections on Pain, Loss and Memory: Takis Kanellopoulos’ Fiction Films of the 1960s – Panayiota MiniChapter 14: The Geography of Neo-Realism in Greece: City Images, Urban Representations and Aesthetics of Space – Anna Poupou