Cypriot cinemas
Subtitle: memory, conflict, and identity in the margins of Europe
By: Edited by Costas Constandinides and Yiannis Papadakis
Series: Topics and issues in national cinema -- volume 3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781623561314; 9781623560027; 9781623564605
Subjects: Motion pictures; History and criticism; Politics in motion pictures
Description: "Cyprus, the idyllic "island of Aphrodite," is better known as a site of conflict and division between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, rather than for its film production. Constandinides and Papadakis work to rectify this dearth of information by discussing the ouevre of filmmakers engaging with the island's traumatic legacies: anti-colonial struggles, post-colonial instability, interethnic conflict, external interventions and war. Starting with the cinema of the 1960s, when the island became a republic, the collection focuses on the recent decades of filmmakers exploring issues of conflict, memory, identity, nationalism, migration and gender, as well as the work of filmmakers who chose to cooperate across the ethnic divide. Cypriot Cinemas utilizes a methodology that engages all necessary perspectives for an illuminating critical discussion: historical, theoretical and comparative (Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot films in relation to regional film cultures/practices). While the volume develops a discussion based on the reading of the political in Cypriot films, it also looks at other film cultures and debates such as (s)exploitation films and transnational cinema."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: scenarios of history, themes and politics in Cypriot cinemas / Costas Constandinides and Yiannis Papadakis; title: Archive, evidence, memory, dream: documentary films on Cyprus / Elizabeth Anne Davis; title: Aesthetics, narratives and politics in Greek Cypriot films: 1960-1974 / Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Nicos Philippou; title: Cyprus past, present and future: the Dervi Zaim trilogy / Laurence Raw; title: Tormenting history: the cinemas of the Cyprus problem / Costas Constandinides and Yiannis Papadakis; title: Transnational views from the margins of Europe: globalization, migration and post-1974 Cypriot cinemas / Costas Constandinides; title: Women and gender in Cypriot cinema: (re)claiming agency amidst the discourses of its negation / Nayia Kamenou; title: Postscript Cypriot cinemas: borders of categories and categories of borders / Costas Constandinides.