Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema: 1949-1967
Autor Achilleas Hadjikyriacouen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501307706
ISBN-10: 1501307703
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 39 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1501307703
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 39 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Investigates how cinematic representations of masculinity and gender relations connect to their historical context
Notă biografică
Achilleas Hadjikyriacou is Cultural Counsellor at the Cyprus High Commission in London, UK. Hadjikyriacou received his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy in 2010. His academic interests focus on gender history, history of masculinity, history and popular culture, visual sources in history and the history of Greek Cinema.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements/Notes for the Reader/Prologue Chapter 1: Masculinity and Gender Relations in Greece: 1949-1967 Greece As Presented by Social Anthropologists /Anthropological views of gender: An Incomplete PictureGreek Society in Transition and Change /Redefining Gender Relations /Youth: Opportunities, Challenges, Continuities, and New Cultures /Rethinking Masculinity and Gender in Post-War Greek Society Chapter 2: Greek Cinema: 1949-1967 Towards a Greek Hollywood: Films, Audiences, and Companies in Post-War Greece /The Role of the StateReflections of Social Change /Greek popular films: Actors, Genres, Themes, and Characters /Masculinities, Femininities and the Rise of a Local Star-System /Youth in Films: The Representation of a Crisis /Rethinking Masculinity, Gender and the Development of Greek Cinema Chapter 3: Masculinity and Locality: Rural Vs. Urban Gender Identities Behind the Main Story: Representing Rural and Urban Societies /Honour, Shame and the ‘Omnipresent Neighbourhood’ /Breaking the Context...or Not? /Subordinating Hegemonies: Masculinity in Crisis ‘Primitive’ Violence /Rethinking Masculinity and Locality Chapter 4: Money, Pride or Both? Masculinity and Class Idealizing the Working-Classes, Demonizing the Upper-Classes /Class Transition: Shifting between Hegemony and Subordination /Re-negotiating Tradition in the View of a Problematic Modernity /Leading Men to Crisis: A Female Task /Rethinking Masculinity and Class Chapter 5: Modern Men: Masculinity and the Challenges of a New Age Profitable Bodies: Embodying a New Morality /Challenging ‘Undisputed’ Hierarchies /A Generation Gap in Greece /Women as Agents of Change /Conflicting Typologies: the Traditional, the Modern and the ‘In-Betweens’ /Rethinking Masculinity and Modernity Epilogue AppendixPrimary sources Bibliography Index
Recenzii
Who are role models for modern Greek men? The classical heroes? Or contemporary Zorbas? This trail-blazing fusion of film studies with gender history reveals how past and present mythologies influence the history of men...and women too.
This book is a scholarly analysis of Greek masculinity, which incorporates the interrelation of gender, power and knowledge in an exemplary way. It is a valuable resource for everybody interested in gender studies giving impetus to future research and debate on the complex connection of cinema with both its socio-historical context and the redefinition of masculinity and femininity.
Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema is a fascinating study of changing gender relations in postwar Greece, and the ways they were symbolized in film. Challenging anthropologists’ pictures of rigid Greek patriarchy, Achilleas Hadjikyriacou gives us a realist picture of a rapidly changing society in which all patterns of masculinity came into question. As well as introducing readers to a remarkable film industry and a group of dramatic films, this book is a model of intelligent, critical analysis of culture, gender relations, and the dilemmas of new generations of men.
Achilleas Hadjikyriakou’s Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema is both a monumental and innovative study: it provides ample information about the historical contexts of the Greek film industry while at the same time attempting a daring analysis of the representation of masculinity and gender in a number of Greek films, exploring the interaction between culture and industry, representation and reality, history and identity. The study expresses some remarkable insights about the various political projects underpinning dominant codes of representation, within the social and political upheavals of the Greek state in the last sixty years. Finally, it firmly situates Greek Film Studies within the mainstream discussions about global cinema and local knowledge by demonstrating the complexities and intricacies of gender representation in a patriarchal and conservative social system and the ways it confronted the challenges of European modernity.
An innovative analysis of the interaction between social and filmic worlds in post-World War II Greece, questioning the impact of modernity on traditional forms of masculinity, the representations of female emancipation and the birth of new youth cultures. A ground-breaking investigation into the history of Greece, masculinity and popular culture, this book traces a complex connection between the cinematic representations of masculinity and gender with the Greek society of the 1950s and 1960s.
Hadjikyriacou’s book is a worthy and welcome addition to the severely underresearched area of Greek cinema. An engaging read, it offers insights into the history and representation of gender, class and locality in modern Greece, relevant not only to films scholars, but also to social scientists, anthropologists and historians.
This book is a scholarly analysis of Greek masculinity, which incorporates the interrelation of gender, power and knowledge in an exemplary way. It is a valuable resource for everybody interested in gender studies giving impetus to future research and debate on the complex connection of cinema with both its socio-historical context and the redefinition of masculinity and femininity.
Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema is a fascinating study of changing gender relations in postwar Greece, and the ways they were symbolized in film. Challenging anthropologists’ pictures of rigid Greek patriarchy, Achilleas Hadjikyriacou gives us a realist picture of a rapidly changing society in which all patterns of masculinity came into question. As well as introducing readers to a remarkable film industry and a group of dramatic films, this book is a model of intelligent, critical analysis of culture, gender relations, and the dilemmas of new generations of men.
Achilleas Hadjikyriakou’s Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema is both a monumental and innovative study: it provides ample information about the historical contexts of the Greek film industry while at the same time attempting a daring analysis of the representation of masculinity and gender in a number of Greek films, exploring the interaction between culture and industry, representation and reality, history and identity. The study expresses some remarkable insights about the various political projects underpinning dominant codes of representation, within the social and political upheavals of the Greek state in the last sixty years. Finally, it firmly situates Greek Film Studies within the mainstream discussions about global cinema and local knowledge by demonstrating the complexities and intricacies of gender representation in a patriarchal and conservative social system and the ways it confronted the challenges of European modernity.
An innovative analysis of the interaction between social and filmic worlds in post-World War II Greece, questioning the impact of modernity on traditional forms of masculinity, the representations of female emancipation and the birth of new youth cultures. A ground-breaking investigation into the history of Greece, masculinity and popular culture, this book traces a complex connection between the cinematic representations of masculinity and gender with the Greek society of the 1950s and 1960s.
Hadjikyriacou’s book is a worthy and welcome addition to the severely underresearched area of Greek cinema. An engaging read, it offers insights into the history and representation of gender, class and locality in modern Greece, relevant not only to films scholars, but also to social scientists, anthropologists and historians.