Greek Film Noir

ISBN-13: 9781474458993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Anna Poupou;Nikitas Fessas;Maria Chalkou

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Preface by Andrew Spicer

Introduction by the editors

PART 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 Karalis

2. Of Mice, Men and Greek Film Noir: The Little Mouse - Maria A. Stassinopoulou

3. Historical Coincidence or Generic Cross-pollination? The Angry Hills and the Birth of Film Noir in Greece - Yannis Tzioumakis

4. 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 Fessas

PART 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 Chalkou

9. 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 Psaras

11. 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