Achilleas Hadjikyriacou

Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema (eBook, PDF)

1949-1967

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Produktbeschreibung

Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social transformations which influenced gender identities and relations. During the same period, Greece also witnessed an unparalleled bloom in cinema productions. Based on the recently established paradigm that cinema and popular culture viewed as social institutions can inform a historical study, Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema explores the relationship between Greek cinema and the society within which it was created and viewed.

The book's double analytical perspective on cinema and masculinity advances both the study of cinema and popular culture as historical sources, and of masculinity and gender relations as valid categories of historical analysis. Cinema as a medium of representation, not only managed to reflect on these issues, it also provided a whole new field for their interpretation. This is the first study to explore the dramatic transformation of masculinity and gender roles, as represented in Greek cinema during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441185730
• Artikelnr.: 48422252

Autorenporträt

Achilleas Hadjikyriacou is a Scientific Officer at the Research Promotion Foundation in Cyprus (RPF). 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. In 2012 he was awarded the James Kaye Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis on history and visuality for the period 2009-11.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Picture
Greek 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 State Reflections 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 Appendix Primary sources
Bibliography Index