This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema explores key trends over the past 25 years, including documentary and avant-garde filmmaking, art house and popular cinema. The book seeks to highlight the continuities, mutual influences and common contexts that inform, shape and inspire filmmaking in Greece today.

This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema builds and expands on existing work in the field, providing a coherent analysis of films which, despite their international importance, have so far received limited critical attention. The volume maps key trends in Greek cinema since the 1990s within the wider context of production and consumption at both national and international levels. It offers a wide range of critical analyses of documentary and avant-garde filmmaking, art house and popular cinema, and the work of established and new directors as well as deliberations on teaching methodologies and marketing strategies. The book seeks to highlight the continuities, mutual influences and common contexts that inform, shape and inspire filmmaking in Greece today.

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Tonia Kazakopoulou is a Teaching Fellow in Film and Television at the University of Reading, where she has completed her PhD in film. Her research interests include women s cinema of small nations, particularly of Greece; contemporary European and world cinemas; and genre and gender in film and television. She has published on women screenwriters, women s popular cinema and representations of motherhood in Greek cinema. She is the co-organizer of the international standing conference Contemporary Greek Film Cultures and is on the editorial board of Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies. Mikela Fotiou holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include authorship, female representation and genre, especially film noir and horror film. She is the co-organizer of the international standing conference Contemporary Greek Film Cultures and is on the editorial board of Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies.

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CONTENTS: Tonia Kazakopoulou: Introduction - Ulrich Meurer/Maria Oikonomou: Short Voyages to the Land of Gregarious Animals: On Political Aesthesia in Sto Lyko and Sweetgrass - Stavros Alifragkis: Constructing the Urban Cinematic Landscape: Theo Angelopoulos's Thessaloniki - Rea Walldén: The Spatio-Temporality of the Avant-Gardes: Feminist Avant-Garde U-Topoi in Greek Cinema from Transition to Crisis - Ben Tyrer: This Tongue Is Not my Own: Dogtooth, Phobia and the Paternal Metaphor - Angie Voela: Family, Gender and the Emotional Economy in Tsemberopoulos's The Enemy Within - Tonia Kazakopoulou: In the Name of the Father: Rituals of Gender and Democracy in Olga Malea's First Time Godfather - Marios Psaras: No Country for Old Faggots: Exploring Queer Utopias in Panos Koutras's Strella - Nick Poulakis: A Touch of Spice: Postmodern Identities and the Construction of the Other through Film Music - Philip Phillis: The Albanian in the Room: Revisiting Greek Hospitality in From the Snow and Plato's Academy - Taso G. Lagos: «White Ethnicity» and the Challenge of Independent Greek Films to Greek Stereotypes in the Global Imaginary - Afroditi Nikolaidou: Marketing Communications in the Greek Film Industry: Rethinking Contemporary Greek Cinema - Erato Basea: The «New Greek Cinema» before the «Greek New Wave»: The Case of The Only Journey of his Life - Mikela Fotiou: Nikolaidis's Diptych Those Who Loved a Corpse: A «Pasticcio of Pastiches» - Antoinetta Angelidi with Rea Walldén: The Ethics of Heterogeneity and Experimentation: Teaching Film Direction in the Film School at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.