COURSE CODE: 46306
COURSE TYPE: OPTIONAL
ΕCTS: 5
SEMESTER: 6TH | SPRING
COURSE LANGUAGE: GREEK | ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
The course provides an overview of Greek cinema from the early 20th century to the present day. Its aim is to familiarize students with various aspects of Greek cinema through a selected filmography. This familiarity encompasses both the evolution of the cinematic production and language, as well as the significance of cinema within the political and cultural context. To achieve this goal, the course employs contemporary and critical methodologies in the fields of film and cultural studies, allowing for the examination of the history of Greek cinema through the lenses aesthetics and politics. The course will examine the period of early cinema as a field of experimentations regarding modes of production and filmic language, the post-war period and the establishment of Greek film industry (studios, major agents, studios) focusing on the work of the Greek auteurs (Kakoyiannis, Koundouros, Kanellopoulos) and the influences of world cinema in Greece. Emphasis will be given to the modernist cinema of the 1960s and will result to the generation of the New Greek Cinema. We will discuss issues of censorship and control, social representation and thematics of the mainstream and arthouse cinema. Finally the course will examine trends in contemporary Greek cinema such as the Weird Wave, through the analysis of feature films and documentaries, and discuss the contemporary modes of production, financing and promotion of cinema in Greece today.
ΒIBLIOGRAPHY
- Karalis Vrasidas, 2012, A History of Greek Cinema. New York & London: Continuum.
- Papanikolaou Dimitris, 2021, Greek Weird Wave. A Cinema of Biopolitics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Poupou Anna, Fessas Nikitas, Chalkou Maria (eds), 2022 Greek Film Noir, Edinburgh University Press
- Psaras, Marios. 2016, The Queer Greek Weird Wave: Ethics, Politics and the Crisis of Meaning, Λονδίνο: Palgrave MacMillan