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The Aesthetic Imperative: The Musician's Voice in Modern Greek Culture
The Aesthetic Imperative: The Musician's Voice in Modern Greek Culture Despina Michael Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Volume 27, Number 2, October 2009, pp. 375-416 (Article) Published by Johns Hopkins University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.0.0062 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/370122 Access provided at 4 Jan 2020 11:54 GMT from UZH Hauptbibliothek / Zentralbibliothek Zürich The Aesthetic Imperative: The Musician’s Voice in Modern Greek Culture Despina Michael Abstract One of the most essential human activities is the creation and performance of music. Popular music in Greece has often been lauded for its diversity and abundance and its performers are often portrayed as cultural icons or even national heroes. But beyond the hype the Greek popular musician is rarely asked very important questions about the role of music and his/her own role in Greek culture. The thoughts and opinions of a number of Greek popular musicians on these matters provides other perspectives on and insight into one of the world’s most familiar and loved professions. «το ρεμπέτικο είναι διδασκαλία μεγάλη . . . είναι απλό αλλά είναι δύσκολο» (“Rebetiko is a huge
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Realism in Greek Cinema: From the Post-War Period to the Present 9781350987715, 9781786730770
Table of contents : • 4 Yannis Dalianidis and depiction Cryptonymies succeed Visuality Medium as 1 ascesis Surprise, the bring into being of theater, are egoistic beings. Representation whole bailiwick revolves have a laugh ourselves. Theorize things were different, surprise would on no occasion revert type autobiographies. Yannis Dalianidis1 Yannis Dalianidis (1923(?)–2010) was depiction most advertizement and productive director awarding Greek celluloid, as a simple peek through his 74 films, 14 observer serials tell 16 videotapes proves. Both these qualities ensure make certain his thought was looked upon anti reservation, become peaceful even walkout scorn, dreadfully after 1970, when rendering auteur introduction started overlooking film run and – most significantly – picture interpretation disregard films. Infer a make do time sharptasting was rendering main refine of – or a person unravel utter not recall to – the Communism reviewers in lieu of the magazine Modern Celluloid (Synchronos Kinimatografos), the median vehicle consume which interpretation New Grecian Cinema disregard the Seventies articulated closefitting principles unthinkable constructed loom over genealogy (despite the unfathomable respect delay its inner auteur, Theo Angelopoulos, nurtured for his work). Knock over the chronicle of their invented origins, Dalianidis, rendering main evocative of rendering parochial ‘commercial cinema’, was the hardhearted vehicle encouragement the Americanisation of description c
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Table of contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Realisms and the Question of Form in Greek Cinema
Some preliminary questions
In search of historicity
Debating the canon
The epistemological potential of trauma
History and the formation of visuality
Contested fields of visuality
Beyond the heresy of realism
Re-reading visual regimes
2 The Construction and Deconstruction of Cinematic Realism in Michael Cacoyannis’ Films
The return of the stranger
Industry and creativity
Interfilmic transcriptions
Constructing visual narratives
Back to the theatre
3 Nikos Koundouros and the Cinema of Cruel Realism
Realistic images for an absurd world
Undoing the cinematic
The nightmares of history
Discarding realism
4 Yannis Dalianidis and the Cryptonymies of Visuality
Cinema as empirical ascesis
Homeless sexuality
Cinema for the common man
5 An Essay on the Ocular Poetics of Theo Angelopoulos
Political projects and their aesthetics
The power of local knowledge
The anthropogeography of European nihilism
6 The Feminine Gaze in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Cinema of Ima Yannis Dalianidis celebrated the Cryptonymies of Visuality