Acknowledgements Introduction Lydia Papadimitriou and Yannis Tzioumakis Part I: Approaches 1. A Touch of Spice: Mobility and Popularity Dimitris Eleftheriotis 2. Is There Such a Thing as a Greek Blockbuster? The Revival of Contemporary Greek Cinema Michalis Kokonis 3. Gloves and Moustaches: Masculinity and Gender Relations in the Film Ta Kitrina Gantia/Yellow Gloves Yvonne Alexia Kosma Part II: Histories 4. Coloniality and Early Greek Film Culture Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou 5. Open-air Cinema in Athens: The Rise of the City and Urban Identities Yiannis Christofides and Melissanthi Saliba 6. Silent Greek Cinema: In Search of Academic Recognition Eliza Anna Delveroudi 7. Definitely Maybe: Possible Narratives of the History of Greek Cinema Maria A.

Stassinopoulou Part III: Identity 8. Music, Dance and Cultural Identity in the Greek Film Musical Lydia Papadimitriou 9. Carnivalized Greekness: Stavros Tsiolis' Please, Ladies Don't Cry Nikos Leros 10. Cacoyannis' Stella : Representation and Reception of a Patriarchal Anomaly Achilleas Hadjikyriacou 11. Greek Cinema Without Greece: Investigating Alternative Formations Gary Needham Part IV: Aesthetics 12. Film Style in Old Greek Cinema: The Case of Dinos Dimopoulos Eleftheria Thanouli 13. Reflections on Pain, Loss and Memory: Takis Kanellopoulos' Fiction Films of the 1960s Panayiota Mini 14. The Geography of Neo-Realism in Greece: City Images, Urban Representations and Aesthetics of Space Anna Poupou Notes on Contributors Index.