Animals and Greek Cinema : An Inquiry into the Nonhuman

Fessas, Nikitas

Palgrave Macmillan（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 378 p.
• 商品コード 9783031848568

Full Description

"A pioneering work in intercultural and transcultural cinematic conversations, Fessas's study offers new principles of hermeneutics for understanding images of animality and what they indicate in relation to anthropology, psychology, politics and philosophy. The result can be compared to Laura Mulvey's hugely impactful essay that reinvented the vocabulary of film analysis. An immense contribution in taking Greek film culture out of its provincialism."

— Vrasidas Karalis , Associate Professor of Modern Greek, The University of Sydney, Australia

 "I can't think of anything in Greek cinema studies that could compare with Animals and Greek Cinema . Fessas exhibits an astonishing knowledge of Greek filmography, weaving together, with incredible dexterity and strong academic rigour, theoretical, historical (and historiographic), philosophical, and industrial threads. A formidable scholarly achievement!"

— Yannis Tzioumakis , Reader in Film and Media Industries, University of Liverpool, UK

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Towards a nonhuman account of Greek cinema.- Chapter 3: One or several wolf men, little foxes and young Aphrodites.- Chapter 4: Furry-tales: narratives of therianthropy and queerness; the cases of Panos Koutras and Elina Psykou.- Chapter 5: Birds of a feather.- Chapter 6: Dying like dogs.- Chapter 7: All creatures great and small: Dimos Avdeliodis's theistic posthumanism.- Chapter 8 : Shooting animality: Menelaos Karamaghiolis's cinema of transspecies poetics.- PART II: The Animal People.- Chapter 9 : Small lives.- Chapter 10: Dressing animals; or: the calculated banality of nonhuman film logistics.- Chapter 11: Olga Malea's malleable animals.- Chapter 12: Getting their goats.