By Marios Psaras
Cinema will not be in a position to aid heal a damaged kingdom however it can certainly support revisit a nation’s earlier, reframe its current and re-imagine its destiny. this is often the 1st book-length examine on what has turn into an across the world acclaimed strand in modern Greek cinema. Psaras examines how this actual development could be regarded as an essential aesthetic reaction to the notorious Greek concern, illuminating its basic ideological facets through a queer critique of nationwide politics. Drawing on quite a lot of methodological ways from queer idea, movie thought, moral philosophy and psychoanalysis, this quantity sheds mild at the means the Greek bizarre Wave demanding situations, deconstructs and re-imagines conventional notions of Greekness, the Greek kingdom and the Greek patriarchal kinfolk. this is often completed via shut textual research of the subversive thematics and idiosyncratic types of six movies made through many of the best-known and such a lot celebrated modern Greek administrators together with Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011) by means of Yorgos Lanthimos, Strella (2009) by way of Panos H. Koutras, and Attenberg (2010) via Athina-Rachel Tsangaris.
Read Online or Download The Queer Greek Weird Wave: Ethics, Politics and the Crisis of Meaning PDF
Similar gay & lesbian books
Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature
Male Sexuality below Surveillance is a full of life, clever, and expertly argued research of the development of male sexuality within the enterprise place of work. Graham Thompson interweaves 3 major threads: a historicized cultural research of the improvement of the fashionable company place of work from its beginnings within the early 19th century to the current day, a Foucauldian dialogue of the place of work because the website of varied disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical dialogue of the textualization of the homosexual male physique as a tool for generating a taxonomy of male-male family members.
Summer time, 1976. A airplane crashes on a farm within the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks younger Maggie Beck, clutching a toddler in her fingers. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - vacationing his spouse, Laura, in health center - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. yet a few secrets and techniques are top stored mystery, and what began for Dryden as a small and curious tale in regards to the basically survivor of an almost-forgotten aircraft crash quickly escalates right into a full-blown homicide research.
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
In chilly struggle the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy loved large help within the struggle opposed to what he known as atheistic communism. yet that aid stemmed much less from his wild fees approximately communists than his extra substantiated fees that "sex perverts" had infiltrated executive firms. even if now remembered as an assault on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism brought "moral values" into the yank political arsenal.
Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
A teen woman is mocked whilst she takes a bathtub along with her friends, simply because her genitals appear like these of a boy. a pair visits a physician asking to ‘create extra space’ within the lady for sex. a physician unearths testicular tissue in a lady with appendicitis, and comes to a decision to maintain his findings quiet.
- Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays and Governments (Religion and the Social Order)
- A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
- Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities
- When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures
- A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
- The Man in the Panthers Skin
Additional resources for The Queer Greek Weird Wave: Ethics, Politics and the Crisis of Meaning
Example text
Iliades offers some loving close-ups of his actors here, which show them smiling and enjoying the number. But Martha soon loses her smile as she becomes aware of the presence of their boss, Manos, in the fantasy, who is performing his own show at the bottom of the stage, in front of the big letters. The orchestral non-diegetic music is pushed to the background and Martha’s voice-over once again interrupts the flow of the images: ‘Nandia was looking at me strangely. She knew I was jealous of her because of Argyris, that I was generally jealous of her.
Soft piano notes start filling the soundtrack signaling the beginning of Martha’s hallucinatory journey. The camera zooms in to an extreme close-up of her eye and then the film dissolves to another zoom shot of a washing machine drum whose faded coloring helps it masquerade as an eye itself, but a spinning eye that washes together random images from memories, dreams and nightmares. A black-and-white clip shows a father playing with his young daughter; an old blue frame features a barely discernible figure of a young girl sleeping; a close-up of a humongous black dildo in the hands of a naked man; an animated shot foregrounds a red heart growing bigger and bigger; an unsteady shot of a Catholic statue of Mother Mary; a poorly lit long shot of Martha sitting naked on a bed in an empty deserted room; a clip from children’s cartoons; and, finally, another zoom shot of Martha lying among a gang of naked tattooed men.
21). However, the term ‘New Wave’ could be equally problematic as it recalls specific cinematic traditions that flourished around the world in the post-war era (Iranian New Wave, French Nouvelle Vague, Japanese New Wave, to name a few), thus failing to appropriately contextualize the current trend and grasp its synchronic aesthetic value. Contrary to the above reservations, this book would like to embrace the epithet ‘weird’, although not unconditionally. What I am arguing for is rather a re-appropriation of the specific qualifier that draws on its semantic relation to another formerly derogatory, yet now re-appropriated term, namely the ‘queer’.