Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Πολιτισμικές και Κινηματογραφικές ΣπουδέςLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Supervisors info:
Μαρία Μητροπούλου-Κομνηνού, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μ.Μ.Ε., ΕΚΠΑ.
Ιουλία Μέρμηγκα, Επιστημονικός Συνεργάτης, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μ.Μ.Ε., ΕΚΠΑ.
Original Title:
Τάσεις στον Σύγχρονο Ελληνικό Κινηματογράφο
Translated title:
Trends in Contemporary Greek Cinema
Summary:
For over a decade, there has been a debate between journalists, critics, researchers and scholars about the phenomenon of the dynamic presence and the remarkable course at the international film festivals of more and more young Greek filmmakers' films, which steadily enjoy a positive acceptance and continue to attract the interest of the entire film community.
The criticism within this time frame has already distinguished common features among these films, grouped them, named the cinematic trend and sought to explore the question of the relationship of this trend with the Greek reality. At the same time, the authors themselves deny the existence of a single wave with common features.
The Greek reality is no other than the (almost) decade-old economic crisis with its sociopolitical extensions, which at its inception gathered international attention and has skyrocketed in terms of the world news' interest and whose starting point coincides with the appearance of the above cinema trend.
And while domestic criticism is currently hurrying to talk about the end of this modern Greek film trend, new studies, articles and books emerge, offering a new perspective exploring the limits and possibilities of this cinema and opening up the discussion about the current cultural moment in terms of both the cinematic and the political and social future that awaits this country.
It is obvious that the conversation has moved from whether there is an explicit wave of Greek Cinema with common features and which are the films that belong to it, to whether there is a direct relationship of the above with the Greek crisis, what kind of relationship this is and finally what is the footprint that this Cinema leaves in the cinematic culture and what are the trends that shape it, within the wider cultural and political environment and within the prolonged economic downturn and social instability that Greece is continuously going through.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Cinema, Trends, Contemporary, Greek, Cinematic, Performativity, The Greek Weird Wave, The Queer Greek Weird Wave, Queer, Weird Wave, New Wave of Modern Greek Cinema, New Greek Cinema, Modern Greek Cinema, Old Greek Cinema, Crisis, Greek Crisis, Economic, Social, Politics, Film Crisis Relationship, Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Elina Psykou, Panos H. Koutras, Interview
