Greek Cinema

Yannis Tzioumakis is reader in film and media industries at the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom). He is the author of five books, most recently Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, Performance (co-authored with Cynthia Baron; Palgrave, 2020), and co-editor of six collections of essays, most recently United Artists (Routledge, 2020). He is currently co-editing the collection Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity for Routledge, while authoring a book on Hollywood films in Greece in the 1950s and 1960s. He has also published articles in several journals, including Screen; Film History; Velvet Light Trap; New Review of Film and Television Studies; International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics; and Studies in Documentary Film. Yannis also co-edits two book series: the ‘Routledge Hollywood Centenary’ and ‘Cinema and Youth Cultures’ (both for Routledge).Contact: Department of Communication and Media, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7ZQ, UK.Lydia Papadimitriou is reader in film studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek and Balkan cinema, often with an emphasis on industry-related questions and in areas such as (digital) film (and television) distribution, co-productions, film festivals and documentary. She is the author of The Greek Film Musical (2006) and co-editor of Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011). She is principal editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture and has co-edited a number of special issues, including for ‘New Review of Film and Television Studies’. Her journal publications have appeared in Screen; Studies of European Cinema; International Journal of Media Management; New Review of Film and Television Studies, among others. Her co-edited volume Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020.Contact: Liverpool John Moores University, Redmonds Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5UG, UK.

'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