Realism in Greek Cinema: From the Post-War Period to the Present

Cover\nHalf-title\nEndorsement\nSeries information\nTitle page\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of figures\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n1 Realisms and the Question of Form in Greek Cinema\n	Some preliminary questions\n	In search of historicity\n	Debating the canon\n	The epistemological potential of trauma\n	History and the formation of visuality\n	Contested fields of visuality\n	Beyond the heresy of realism\n	Re-reading visual regimes\n2 The Construction and Deconstruction of Cinematic Realism in Michael Cacoyannis’ Films\n	The return of the stranger\n	Industry and creativity\n	Interfilmic transcriptions\n	Constructing visual narratives\n	Back to the theatre\n3 Nikos Koundouros and the Cinema of Cruel Realism\n	Realistic images for an absurd world\n	Undoing the cinematic\n	The nightmares of history\n	Discarding realism\n4 Yannis Dalianidis and the Cryptonymies of Visuality\n	Cinema as empirical ascesis\n	Homeless sexuality\n	Cinema for the common man\n5 An Essay on the Ocular Poetics of Theo Angelopoulos\n	Political projects and their aesthetics\n	The power of local knowledge\n	The anthropogeography of European nihilism\n6 The Feminine Gaze in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Cinema of Imaginative Cathedrals\n	Invitation to a beheading\n	Films as eschatological monuments: the omega point of being\n	The final lexicon\n7 Greek Cinema in the Age of the Spectacle\n	Politics without representations\n	Politics of cynicism and the cinema of visual indeterminacy\n	The cinema of transgression\nOptimistic Epilogue\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex