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Traditions in World Cinema Ser.: Greek Film Noir by Nikitas Fessas (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Greek Film Noir, Paperback by Poupou, Anna (EDT); Fessas, Nikitas (EDT); Chalkou, Maria (EDT), ISBN 1474459005, ISBN-13 9781474459006, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Investigates how film noir has been received, adapted and developed in Greece, from the 1940s to the present

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474459005

ISBN-139781474459006

eBay Product ID (ePID)3070931588

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGreek Film Noir

Publication Year2024

SubjectFilm / Référence, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

AuthorNikitas Fessas

SeriesTraditions in World Cinema Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThe trio of scholars who have put together "Greek Film Noir," Anna Poupou, Nikitas Fessas, and Maria Chalkou, are keenly aware of what the critic and historian Robert Hughes referred to as "cultural cringe" -- the perception that one's own culture is somehow behind the curve of other countries or peoples. "The study of Greek film noir," the trio write, "is directly linked to how Greeks see themselves as part of an increasingly dystopian landscape." In so many words: The world's going to hell and we want in.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal791.4309495

Table Of ContentPreface by Andrew SpicerIntroduction by the editorsPART 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 Karalis2. Of Mice, Men and Greek Film Noir: The Little Mouse - Maria A. Stassinopoulou3. Historical Coincidence or Generic Cross-pollination? The Angry Hills and the Birth of Film Noir in Greece - Yannis Tzioumakis4. 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 FessasPART 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 Chalkou9. 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 Psaras11. 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

SynopsisOffering 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., Investigates how film noir has been received, adapted and developed in Greece, from the 1940s to the present

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.F54G7 2024