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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.

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Author:   PhD Costas Constandinides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) ,  PhD Yiannis Papadakis (Asst. Professor of Anthropology, University of Cyprus, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781501319969

ISBN 10:   1501319965
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Scenarios of History, Themes and Politics in Cypriot Cinemas Costas Constandinides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and Yiannis Papadakis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 1. Archive, Evidence, Memory, Dream: Documentary Films on Cyprus Elizabeth Anne Davis, Princeton University, USA 2. Aesthetics, Narratives and Politics in Greek Cypriot Films: 1960-1974 Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus, and Nicos Philippou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus 3. Cyprus Past, Present and Future: The Dervis Zaim Trilogy Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey 4. Tormenting History: The Cinemas of the Cyprus Problem Costas Constandinides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus and Yiannis Papadakis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 5. Transnational Views from the Margins of Europe: Globalization, Migration and Post-1974 Cypriot Cinemas Costas Constandinides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus 6. Women and Gender in Cypriot Cinema: (Re)claiming Agency Amidst the Discourses of its Negation Nayia Kamenou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 7. Postscript Cypriot Cinemas: Borders of Categories and Categories of Borders Costas Constandinides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus List of Contributors Index

Reviews

By introducing this neglected and complex topic in such a wide-ranging and pluralist volume, the editors [of Cypriot Cinemas] have achieved a very critical balance: their careful thematic and methodological choices have ensured the discoussion is both organized and inclusive. One of the main virtues of this work is its ability to conceptualize and contextualize, smoothly guiding the reader through ... a variety of points of view, and a wide range of issues ... [T]his ambitious and surprisingly fresh work makes a significant and very welcome contribution. FILMICON: Journal of Greek Film Studies A pathbreaking analysis of an under-researched film material which illuminates our understanding on some of the darkest moments in the contemporary history of Cyprus. By exploring social, national and historical controversies, the book constitutes a exemplary study for anyone interested in visual representations of identity and conflict. Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, author of Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema: 1949-1967 This fascinating anthology is to be commended for its focus on a 'small' unknown cinema in which we can see, as if through a magnifying glass, all the reoccurring nightmares of recent European history as well as the struggle to forge a common history, memory and understanding across divided identities and communities. What is so valuable about this volume is that it offers a very manageable case study of the varied roles film can play in shaping historical perception, memory and identity and at its best, opening up spaces of communication and dialogue that have been closed by civil war. Michael Wayne, Professor of Media and Communications, Brunel University, UK

Author Information

Costas Constandinides is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He is the author of From Film Adaptation to Post-celluloid Adaptation (Continuum, 2010). Yiannis Papadakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He is author of Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide (2005), co-editor of Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History and an Island in Conflict (2006), editor of a special issue of Postcolonial Studies (2006) on Cyprus and co-editor of Cyprus and the Politics of Memory (2012).

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