Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics

The book explores the relationship between early films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Vasilis Kekatos' 2019 Cannes triumph The Distance Between Us and the Sky, the lasting legacy of Panos Koutras' 2009 trans narrative Strella: A Woman's Way in today's gender and sexual identity activism in Greece, the role of cultural collectives in the formation of a weird history of Greek cinema, and how cinema and other cultural forms responded to a sense of Crisis and an ever-expansive management of life known as biopolitics. It proposes the Greek Weird Wave as a paradigmatic cinema movement of biopolitical realism, representing, reframing, and reimagining the present while pointing to a larger development in World Cinema.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The early films of Yorgos Lanthimos, Vasilis Kekatos' 2019 Cannes triumph The Distance Between Us and the Sky, and Panos Koutras' 2009 trans narrative Strella: A Woman's Way have all left a lasting legacy in today's gender and sexual identity activism in Greece. Cultural collectives played a significant role in shaping the weird history of Greek cinema, and cinema and other cultural forms responded to a sense of crisis and an ever-expanding management of life known as biopolitics. This book uses these questions to establish a cinematic and cultural history of Greece during the last difficult decade in an engaged and highly original manner. It focuses on key films from the post-2009 "New" or "Weird Wave" of Greek cinema, proposing the Greek Weird Wave as a paradigmatic cinema movement of biopolitical realism. At once representing, reframing, and reimagining the present, the Greek Weird Wave points to a much larger development in World Cinema.

Weight: 576g
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474436311