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Book SynopsisThe history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors. Focusing on the works of six major filmmakers active from just after WWII to the present day, with added consideration of many others, this book examines the development of cinema as an art form in the social and political contexts of Greece. Insights on gender in film, minority cinemas, stylistic richness and the representation of historical trauma are afforded by close readings of the work and life of such luminaries as Michael Cacoyannis, Nikos Koundouros, Yannis Dalianidis, Theo Angelopoulos, Antouanetta Angelidi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Athena-Rachel Tsangari and Costas Zapas. Throughout, the book examines how directors visually transmute reality to represent unstable societies, disrupted collective memories and national identity.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION TO THE POST-WAR GREEK CINEMA 1945-2012 CHAPTER ONE The Construction and Deconstruction of Cinematic Realism in Michael Cacoyannis’s Films CHAPTER TWO Nikos Koundouros and the cinema of anarchist realism CHAPTER THREE Yannis Dalianidis and the Cryptonymies of Visuality CHAPTER FOUR An introduction to the Ocular Poetics of Theo Angelopoulos CHAPTER FIVE The Feminine Gaze in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Cinema of Imaginative Cathedrals CHAPTER SIX The No-Wave Greek cinema of Transgression OPTIMISTIC EPILOGUE
