Dr. Lydia Papadimitriou
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
PhD (Kent)
Email
Tel: +44 151 231 5112
Research Interests
Greek Cinema, Popular European Cinema, the Films of Theo Angelopoulos, Genre (esp. the musical), and Stardom.Courses Taught
Theories of Spectatorship, Aesthetics of World Cinema, European Cinemas, Persuasion and Propaganda, Introduction to Film Research, Hollywood and Film Language.
Current Project
Greek cinema: Texts, forms and Identities (co-edited with Yannis Tzioumakis), Intellect (2011)
Publications
2009: "Greek Film Studies Today: In search of identity" in Kambos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, no. 17, pp 49-78
2009: Greek translation of The Greek Film Musical (Athens: Papazisis) https://www.papazisi.gr/display_product.asp?S0=1&S1=1&S2=13&S3=54&ID=2408
2009: "Stars of the 1960s Greek musical: Rena Vlahopoulou and Aliki Vougiouklaki" in Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema. Tytti Stoila, ed. London: John Libbey.
2007: Review of Politiki Kouzina in Cineaste
2006: The Greek Film Musical: A Critical and Cultural History, Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2140-1
2004: “Greek War Film as Melodrama: Women, Female Stars and the Nation as Victim” in Yvonne Tasker, ed. Action and Adventure Cinema, pp.297-308. (London and New York: Routledge)
2002: “The Greek Film Musical, 1955-75: A foreign or indigenous genre?” in Optikoakoustiki Koultoura, vol.1 (Athens), pp. 99-112. In Greek.
2000: “Das Griechische Populare Kino: Von den Funfzigerjahren bis heute" ["Greek Popular Cinema: From the fifties until now"] in Swiss annual journal Cinema 45: Erforg (Zurich: Chronos), pp. 142-148. In German
2000: "Traveling on Screen: Tourism and the Greek Film Musical" in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 18, n. 1, May 2000 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), pp.95-104
"More than a 'pale imitation': Narrative, Music and Dance in two Greek Film musicals of the 1960s" in Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell, eds., Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond (Exeter: Intellect Press), pp. 117-124
1998: Review article of two books by Andrew Horton on the films of Theo Angelopoulos, in Screen 39:2, pp. 210-218.
PhD Title
The Greek Film Musical (1955-75): Film Genre and Cultural Identity
