Greek Film Noir
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5900-6 (ISBN)
Offering the first comprehensive study of Greek film noir, this book explores the reception and influence of U.S. and European film noir and neo-noir in Greece and their effect on Greek filmmaking. Employing theoretical frameworks from New Film History, it offers a fresh look at underrated or neglected cultural products to provide insights into Greek modernity and reveal the affinities of established Greek auteurs with the film-noir tradition. Firmly establishing Greece on the film noir cinematic map, it provides a panoramic overview of leading Greek auteurs, from Nikos Koundouros and Maria Plyta to Theo Angelopoulos and Nikos Nikolaidis, whose work is innovatively viewed from an angle of film-noir style and thematics.
Dr Anna Poupou teaches film history and theory at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is co-editor of three collective volumes: City and Cinema: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches (2011), Athens: World Film Locations (2014), The Lost Highway of Greek Cinema 1960–1990 (2019). Her research interests focus on the history of Greek cinema, film and history, urban spaces and cinema, and film noir. Nikitas Fessas holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences: Communication Sciences from Ghent University, Belgium. He has published numerous cultural criticism essays in both Greek and English-language media, as well as academic articles on Greek film noir in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Maria Chalkou is the principal editor of Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies. She holds a PhD in film theory and history from University of Glasgow. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Panteion University, while teaching film history, theory and documentary at Ionian University. She has published on Greek cinema, film censorship, film criticism and cinematic representations of the past.
Preface by Andrew Spicer
Introduction by the editors
PART 1. PARTNERS IN CRIME: RECEPTIONS, AFFINITIES, HYBRIDITIES
1. There Will Be Ogres: The Interstitial Aesthetics of Film Noir in the Early Films of Nikos Koundouros - Vrasidas Karalis
2. Of Mice, Men and Greek Film Noir: The Little Mouse - Maria A. Stassinopoulou
3. Historical Coincidence or Generic Cross-pollination? The Angry Hills and the Birth of Film Noir in Greece - Yannis Tzioumakis
4. Noir Backstage: Yannis Maris from Page to Screen - Thanassis Agathos
5. Dark Cinema, Dark Sounds: Mimis Plessas and the Integration of Jazz in Greek Film Noir - Nick Poulakis
6. Fatal Absences and Female Gazes: Alternative Femininities in Greek Film Noir and the Psychological Thriller of the 1950s and 1960s - Anna Poupou
7. Bums and Dark Alleys: Constructing Queerness in a mid-1960s Greek Noir - Nikitas Fessas
PART 2: POLITICAL ASPECTS AND TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE GREEK NEO-NOIR
8. A Dark Intrigue of Murder: Kierion (1967-74) and Reconstruction (1970) or Film Noir as Politics - Maria Chalkou
9. Neo-Noir and ‘Becoming-Murderer’ in Tonia Marketaki’s John the Violent (1973) - Ioulia Mermigka
10. The Unbearable Queerness of Singapore Sling. Towards a Queer Ethics and Politics of Representation -Marios Psaras
11. Hong Kong and Athens: Contested Spaces of the Global and the Local in John Woo’s and Alexis Alexiou’s Neo-Noir - Yun-hua Chen
12. Darker Worlds Come in Small Packages: Neo-noir Sensibility in Greek Cypriot Short Films - Costas Constandinides
13. Greek Sleuths and Tough Cops: Noir Masculinities in Television Crime Shows (1992-2020) - Georgia Aitaki and Spyridon Chairetis
14. Mediterranean Film Noir: Twilight Falls on Mare Nostrum - Dennis Broe
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.05.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Traditions in World Cinema |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-5900-5 / 1474459005 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-5900-6 / 9781474459006 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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