{"title":"Greece: Transnational Dynamics in Greek Cinema since the Crisis","authors":"Maria D. Chalkou","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458436.003.0007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The chapter on Greece provides a contextualizing overview of the flourishing post-2008 Greek film culture and a brief exploration of its important trends and patterns. It identifies three major strands within Greek cinema: (a) popular heritage narratives that employ shared histories (e.g., Holocaust, WWII) while capitalizing on national specificity; (b) ‘weird wave’ or aesthetically challenging genre-oriented art-house films, widely screened at international festivals; and (c) politically oriented documentaries that address issues of global interest such as neo-Nazism and the financial or refugee crises. The chapter places particular emphasis on how these trends ‘Europeanize’ and ‘transnationalize’ the Greek experience by securing international funding and addressing non-national audiences, while, at the same time, renegotiating national identity.","PeriodicalId":409277,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Balkan Cinema","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contemporary Balkan Cinema","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458436.003.0007","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The chapter on Greece provides a contextualizing overview of the flourishing post-2008 Greek film culture and a brief exploration of its important trends and patterns. It identifies three major strands within Greek cinema: (a) popular heritage narratives that employ shared histories (e.g., Holocaust, WWII) while capitalizing on national specificity; (b) ‘weird wave’ or aesthetically challenging genre-oriented art-house films, widely screened at international festivals; and (c) politically oriented documentaries that address issues of global interest such as neo-Nazism and the financial or refugee crises. The chapter places particular emphasis on how these trends ‘Europeanize’ and ‘transnationalize’ the Greek experience by securing international funding and addressing non-national audiences, while, at the same time, renegotiating national identity.