Greek film noir / edited by Anna Poupou, Nikitas Fessas and Maria Chalkou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poupou, Anna, editor.

Fessas, Nikitas, editor.

Chalkou, Maria, editor.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--Greece--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Greece.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 311 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Offering the first comprehensive study of Greek film noir, this book explores the reception and influence of US 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Traditions in World Cinema

Foreword

Introduction

PART I. PARTNERS IN CRIME: RECEPTIONS, AFFINITIES, HYBRIDITIES

1 There Will Be Ogres: The Interstitial Aesthetics of Film Noir in the Early Films of Nikos Koundouros

2 Of Mice, Men and Greek Film Noir: The Little Mouse

3 Historical Coincidence or Generic Cross-Pollination? The Angry Hills and the Birth of Film Noir in Greece

4 Noir Backstage: Yannis Maris from Page to Screen

5 Dark Cinema, Dark Sounds: Mimis Plessas and the Integration of Jazz into Greek Film Noir

6 Fatal Absences and Female Gazes: Alternative Femininities in Greek Film Noir and the Psychological Thriller

7 Bums and Dark Alleys: Constructing Queerness in a Mid-1960s Greek Noir

PART II. POLITICAL ASPECTS AND TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE GREEK NEO-NOIR

8 A Dark Intrigue of Murder: Kierion and Reconstruction, or Film Noir as Politics

9 Neo-Noir and ‘Becoming-Murderer’ in Tonia Marketaki’s John the Violent

10 The Unbearable Queerness of Singapore Sling: Towards a Queer Ethics and Politics of Irony

11 Hong Kong and Athens: Contested Spaces of the Global and the Local in the Neo-Noir of John Woo and Alexis Alexiou

12 Darker Worlds Come in Small Packages: Neo-Noir Sensibility in Greek Cypriot Short Films

13 Greek Sleuths and Tough Cops: Noir Masculinities in Television Crime Shows (1992–2020)

14 Mediterranean Film Noir: Twilight Falls on mare nostrum

Appendix: Greek Films and Television Series/Shows Featuring Dominant Noir or Neo-Noir Tropes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 24, 2023).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781474459020

1474459021

9781474459013

1474459013

OCLC:

1343103627