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:
Αφροδίτη Νικολαΐδου, επίκουρη καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και ΜΜΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η Ελλάδα ως κινηματογραφικό πλατό. Αναπαραστάσεις εξωτισμού στις σύγχρονες κινηματογραφικές παραγωγές Beckett & Lost daughter
Translated title:
Greece as a film set. Representations of exoticism in the recent films: Beckett & Lost daughter
Summary:
Greece is becoming an attractive destination for international film productions. This is depicted in numbers: in 2021, the foreign films shot in the country where multiple in comparison to the films shot in any previous year. In their international campaigns, national film agencies describe Greece as a large and diverse film set. But how is this set actually being exploited by the international directors? In the light of Orientalism and Balkanism, two theories which form the context in which the Western world approaches the cultural Other, this paper attempts to shed some light on the images of exoticism as well as on the consolidated patterns of prejudice that can be detected in films shot in Greece.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Film, exoticism, cultural studies, Orientalism, Balkanism
Number of references:
130
File:
File access is restricted only to the intranet of UoA.
Διπλωματική_Μ.Αγρίτη_28.2.22_Pergamos.pdf
1 MB
File access is restricted only to the intranet of UoA.
