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Greek Cinema and Migration, 1991-2016
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Book Presentation:
Discusses issues of immigration and identity within contemporary Greek cinema (1991-2016)
• Focuses on representations of immigrants and refugees in contemporary Greek cinema
• Provides an in-depth understanding of Greek cinema from the early 1990s and its direct correlation to foreign migration and the country’s ongoing struggles to implement European modernity
• Brings Greek cinema to the forefront of Anglophone Film and Cultural Studies, responding to growing needs to investigate the cinema of small nations and to provide a holistic study of European cinema
• A wide selection of case studies covering the period from 1991 to 2016 illustrate the growing fascination of Greek filmmakers with the plight of immigrants and refugees in Greece and the shifting ideological and cultural zeitgeist
Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the capacity of contemporary Greek cinema to challenge the logic of Fortress Europe. Placing contemporary Greek cinema within the context of European film production and transnational cinema, the book explores the fascination of Greek filmmakers with migration, mobility, borders and identity, between 1991 and 2016. With case studies of films such as The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), The Way to the West (2003), Man at Sea (2011) and many more, this ground-breaking book provides an in-depth understanding of contemporary Greek cinema and its direct correlation to the country’s ongoing struggles to implement European modernity.
About the Author:
Dr Philip Edward Phillis is an independent film scholar.
Press Reviews:
The book constitutes an important contribution to the history and the analysis of Greek film, succeeding to connect the successive changes and crises that took place in Greece during the last three decades with the Greek cinematic culture.– Elina Kapetanaki, University of Macedonia, FILMICON: Journal of Greek Film Studies, Issue 7
With Greek Cinema and Migration, Philip Phillis presents the first comprehensive study of films produced in Greece between 1991 and 2016 that center stories of foreign migrants and refugees. [...] pioneering.– Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
A welcome addition to the literature on cinema and migration, Phillis’ monograph examines the ways in which the cinema of a small European country with a long history of emigration has responded to the post-1990s phenomenon of becoming a host country for immigrants. The book focuses mainly on migration from Albania that dominated social discourse and cinematic representation in the 1990s and 2000s, but also throws light on cinematic responses to the mid-2010s ‘refugee crisis’. A timely contribution to pressing global debates examined from a small country perspective.– Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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