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{"title":"Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics by Dimitris Papanikolaou (review)","authors":"Lydia Papadimitriou","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925804","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics</em> by Dimitris Papanikolaou <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Lydia Papadimitriou (bio) </li> </ul> Dimitris Papanikolaou, <em>Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics</em>. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2021. Pp. xvi + 268. 27 illustrations., Hardback and E-book £90.00, Paperback £19.99. <p>Toward the end of his introduction, Dimitris Papanikolaou writes that \"this is a very personal, very idiosyncratic, very weird history of the Weird Wave\" (24). The book is indeed personal: the author explicitly places (his own) affect center stage, writes about how the films \"touch\" him, and positions \"biopolitical realism\"—the key concept that structures the book—as a \"survival tactic\" (23). The book is idiosyncratic for the very same reasons, as well as for the ways in which its author inflects, adjusts, and expands otherwise familiar concepts such as allegory in new directions—most crucially, here, by introducing the notion of <em>metonymic</em> allegory. And it is weird insofar as it combines a certain degree of playfulness (evident at a glance in some of its subheadings) with intense theoretical engagement while also implicitly acknowledging—just as the Greek Weird Wave filmmakers have done through their films—the \"unease\" of articulating fixed and authoritative interpretations, opting instead to \"reclaim … weirdness … as an analytical position\" (11).</p> <p>None of the above qualities makes the book problematic; if anything, they signal its methodological and heuristic strengths. Far from being a formalist genre study, <em>Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics</em> seeks to find connections among form, content, context, and affect within the otherwise rather disparate group of Greek films that emerged in the late 2000s and thrived in the second decade of the twenty-first century. This was a period overdetermined by the Greek financial crisis, which affected not only the conditions of the films' production (if not initially, then certainly by the time the term \"Greek Weird Wave\" was coined by British journalist Steve Rose in 2011) but also the interpretative frames projected onto them—frames that encouraged traditional (i.e., metaphor-based) allegorical readings of the nation in crisis.</p> <p>Triggered by his own emotive and bodily response to the films, Papanikolaou offers an analysis that goes beyond such approaches. He argues that the films' potency lies in their ability to convey \"weirdness\" as a \"structure of feeling\" (12) for the conditions of life in the early twenty-first century as experienced—not only, but with particular intensity—in Greece. Borrowing Foucault's notion of biopolitics, understood as the \"social and political practices that focus on 'disciplining the living being'\" and ultimately subjugating \"'corporeal life into systems of","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Greek Genius: Reflections on Demon Entrepreneurs","authors":"Thomas W. Gallant","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925798","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Rethinking Greek Genius:<span>Reflections on <em>Demon Entrepreneurs</em>¹</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Thomas W. Gallant (bio) </li> </ul> <p>This fascinating collection of essays examines \"Greek genius\" from various angles and interpretive stances. The concept is rooted in two stereotypes: the resourceful and clever Odysseus from Homer's epics and the deceitful Sinon from Virgil's works. Collectively, the essays argue that the Greek genius is closely tied to economic success, with shipping and commerce playing a crucial role in spreading Enlightenment ideas and fostering political emancipation in Greek lands. The argument suggests a reciprocal relationship between economic success and education, with each reinforcing the other. The volume also emphasizes the persistence of the Greek genius stereotype as a myth of redemption despite Greece's limited resources and uncertain prospects. Nations have traditionally crafted self-images of their character that define them and distinguish them from others. British reserve and stalwartness, for example, are captured in the phrase \"stiff upper lip.\" Americans have crafted a self-conception around concepts such as \"rugged individualism\" and \"the self-made man.\" For Greeks, the equivalent is the idea of the Greek genius, and this richly textured collection explores the content and impact of the concept on the political, social, and economic levels. It contributes to the broader discussion surrounding the history of Greek identity, particularly its complex interplay with cultural stereotypes, economic factors, and education.</p> <p>In addition to discussing the structure and content of the volume, Gounaris, in his introduction, grapples with the thorny issue of what constitutes the \"Greek genius\" and how the phrase's meaning has changed over the ages. Translating Ἑλληνικὸν δαιμόνιον from ancient Greek to modern English is a challenging task because it was polyvalent and context-dependent. Gounaris argues that, in ancient Greek, both <em>daimon</em> and <em>daimonion</em> signify \"god\" or \"deity.\" In modern Greek, they are likewise synonymous and encompass religious and <strong>[End Page 95]</strong> divine connotations as well as exceptional ingenuity in the broader sense of logical and emotional intelligence. Despite the nineteenth-century business opportunities available to diaspora Greeks, the <em>acquired</em> feature of ingenuity in the Greek temperament has been largely overlooked. The Greek character, with its various talents such as shrewdness and cunning, has been well studied, but there has been a tendency to neglect the (re)fashioning of the Greek genius as a constructed trait rather than an inherent one.</p> <p>Part 1 of the book, \"Beware of the Greeks: From Antiquity to Rediscovery,\" contains chapters by Evangelos Sakkas, Constantine Theodoridis, Ioannis ","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 ed. by April Kalogeropoulos Householder (review)","authors":"Michalis Sotiropoulos","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2024.a925801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2024.a925801","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821</em> ed. by April Kalogeropoulos Householder <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Michalis Sotiropoulos (bio) </li> </ul> April Kalogeropoulos Householder, editor, <em>Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821</em>. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. xix + 381. 46 illustrations, 1 map. Cloth $120.00. <p>As expected, the bicentenary of the start of the Greek Revolution of 1821 was an incentive for scholars to revisit the topic. The book under review is one of the many new studies that were published as a result—for example, the recent volumes edited by Kitromilides (2021), by Kitromilides and Tsoukalas (2021), and by Cartledge and Varnava (2022). What makes the volume under review stand out are, first, the interdisciplinary perspective it adopts in approaching its subject matter, and, second, the subject matter itself—the book's concentration on none other than Laskarina Bouboulina, one of the \"heroines\" of the Revolution. Among many recent books (including monographs) touching on key protagonists of the Revolution, this is, to my knowledge, the only one that focuses on a woman and that therefore gives due weight to gender as a category of analysis—this in itself is a very important addition to the literature on 1821. The volume is also interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together historians, <strong>[End Page 121]</strong> art historians, scholars of film and literary studies, and ethnomusicologists, as well as archivists and other professionals. Indeed, the volume focuses less on Bouboulina herself than on the heroine's afterlives; on the ways in which she has been commemorated or forgotten; on how she has been depicted in art, film, songs, and poems both in Greece and elsewhere; and on how these depictions have been used and received by philhellenic movements around the world.</p> <p>These themes are brought together by the editor, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, in the introduction to the volume and in a following chapter on the available primary and secondary sources on Bouboulina. These two introductory essays contain important theoretical and historiographical insights, especially on the main tropes that have characterized Bouboulina's depictions, on the significance of adopting an interdisciplinary perspective in order to make sense of these depictions, and on the reasons why Bouboulina has been marginalized in the historiography of the Greek Revolution. But these two essays also contain, here and there, claims that some may disagree with, one key example being some formulaic arguments about the backwardness of Greek society under the Ottomans and the role of women in this society—a line of argument that goes back to the 1960s–1970s and to studies of","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Currency as an Imprint of the Nation-State: Monetary Conditions in the Ottoman Empire at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century and the Transition from Ottoman Currencies to the Phoenix of the Hellenic State (1828)","authors":"Catherine Brégianni","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908558","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The economic decline of the Ottoman Empire was fundamental in various ways to the outbreak and progress of the Greek Revolution. The first attempts to create a national currency during the Greek Revolution reflect efforts to craft a modern state, and the eventual introduction of the phoenix by the first governor of the Hellenic State, Ioannis Capodistrias, underscores the shift to a newborn nation-state. The contradictions of Capodistrias’s monetary policy, however, reflected social antagonisms within Greece.","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fate of the Properties of the Executed/Escaped Greek Cypriots of July 1821 according to Ottoman Documents","authors":"Güven Dinç","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908560","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Within a short time, the Greek Revolt of 1821 deeply affected the island of Cyprus. Unlike in the other islands, the rebellion on Cyprus was over before it started owing to the severe measures taken against the rebels by Governor Mehmed Agha, who requested an edict from the sultan listing the names of prominent Greeks to execute. Many Greeks left the island for fear of execution, but some could not. According to Ottoman documents, there were 98 proscribed Cypriots, of whom 75 were executed; the other 23 escaped. In accordance with Ottoman law, the properties of the executed or escaped were first confiscated and then auctioned, with the proceeds transferred to the Public Treasury. But most of the executed or escaped Greeks were not wealthy, and claims by European consuls on the proceeds from the confiscated goods continued for many years.","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption ed. by Mary Cardaras (review)","authors":"Alexander Kitroeff","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908565","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption ed. by Mary Cardaras Alexander Kitroeff (bio) Mary Cardaras, editor, Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2023. Pp. xvi + 192. Hardback $110.00, Paper $35.00, and E-book $35.00. Now that the overall facts of their experience have been established, writes Gonda Van Steen in the introduction to this volume of fourteen short essays, it is time for the voices of the adoptees themselves to be heard. It is Van Steen herself who, in her meticulously researched book-length study Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo? (2019), uncovered how 3,200 young Greek children were adopted by families in the United States between 1950 and 1962. The story Van Steen tells is one of well-meaning humanitarian motives which were overtaken by practices ranging from mere irregularities to brazenly illegal acts that profited unscrupulous middlemen. When those practices began to be uncovered, several hundred Greek children were already in the process of being adopted. Abetting those underhand practices in the 1950s were Greek government authorities, Greek orphanage officials, and unprepared childless couples in the United States. In several cases, some or all of these participants in the adoption process enabled the middlemen to cut corners. And while it is important to note that many of these adoptions had happy outcomes, others were harmful for the children involved because they were denied knowledge of who their biological parents were and the circumstances of their adoption, making for traumatic discoveries when they tried to retrieve the truth. It is these children who tell their personal stories in this volume. Naturally, the publication of Van Steen’s study sent shock waves among the many adoptees, some of whom were already searching for their biological parents and the truth about their backgrounds. One of these, who decided to take up the cause of her fellow adoptees, was Mary Cardaras, a communications professor at California State University, East Bay. Cardaras proved to be the ideal person to fulfill Van Steen’s wish that the adoptees would follow up her book by telling their own stories. Cardaras and Van Steen appeared together at several book presentations, including those for the Greek translation of Van Steen’s book that was published by the Athens-based Potamos Publishers in 2021. In that same year, Cardaras herself published Ripped at the Root: An Adoption Story, an account of how Dena Poulias was taken as a child from her Greek biological parents in 1958 and found her way back to their village after many years. The book traces how Poulias’s discovery of her origins affected everyone involved—the two families on either side of the Atlantic, the Greek village community, and of course Poulias herself and her loved ones. This new book is [End Page 308] both an ","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jerusalem, the Holy Land, and Greekness in Ouranis, Kazantzakis, Sikelianos, and Seferis during the Period of the British Mandate for Palestine","authors":"Ariadne Konstantinou","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908556","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Representations of Jerusalem and the Holy Land during the time of the British Mandate in Palestine (1918–1948) appear in the works of four modern Greek authors of the interwar period: Ouranis, Kazantzakis, Sikelianos, and Seferis. Their works encompass different genres—travel writing (Ouranis and Kazantzakis), diaries (Sikelianos and Seferis), and poetry (Seferis)—and foreground questions about religion and religiosity, identity, class struggle, and modernization. The landscape of the Holy Land turns out to be different, foreign, sometimes even completely desolate, and this realization initiates a process of remembering which ultimately takes the Greek authors back to the familiar places they apparently call home: the Aegean Sea and the Acropolis.","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864–1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith (review)","authors":"Spyridon G. Ploumidis","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908564","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864–1914 by Michael Llewellyn-Smith Spyridon G. Ploumidis (bio) Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864– 1914. London: Hurst, 2021. Pp. xx + 516. 50 illustrations, 4 maps. Cloth £30.00. Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Crete and summoned to Athens in 1910 by a group of military officers, Venizelos dominated the Greek political scene and led his country through a turbulent period of reforms and wars that doubled Greece’s territory and population. During the years of the First World War, however, Venizelos’s political career was overshadowed by a showdown with King Constantine, a political polarization known as the National Schism, and self-exile to Paris. After 1915 Venizelos became, for all his charisma, a contested figure and anathema to his monarchist fellow countrymen. Well versed in the teachings of the founders of the French Third Republic (1870–1940) and a profound admirer of French radical leaders Léon Gambetta and Georges Clemenceau, Venizelos attempted to reform Greek politics along the lines of French radicalism and republicanism. His uncompromising patriotism and fervent nationalism bore spectacular results in the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), which brought an end to the Ottoman Empire and shaped his glorified memory. [End Page 304] Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith, a former British Ambassador in Athens, examines Venizelos’s early years in Cretan politics, his entry onto the center stage of Greek politics, and his gradual development into a renowned statesman. As Llewellyn-Smith notes in the introduction (2–3), his special interest in Venizelos dates back to the late 1960s, when he wrote his widely cited study of Greece’s military campaign and debacle in Asia Minor (1919–1922) (Llewellyn Smith 1998). Llewellyn-Smith’s voluminous biography of Venizelos is well researched, relying on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and complements existing accounts of the life of the Greek statesman (e.g., Stefanou 1977; Papadakis 2017). The author highlights and offers valuable insights into Venizelos’s charisma and elevated standing on Europe’s political scene. Venizelos was not by any means an ordinary man. As Llewellyn-Smith stresses (6), he pushed Greece’s boat “up against the currents of history” and “without him Greece would be different” and very much worse off. To make this point, the book thoroughly illuminates Venizelos’s political thought and mastery and traces his fateful friendship with David Lloyd George, which stimulated his ambitious foreign policies. A second volume will complete his story with the Great War, the postwar peace settlement, Greece’s Asia Minor campaign, and Venizelos’s later years in the office of prime minister. The book is divided into three parts and forty-three chapters. Part 1 provides the historical background to Venizelos’s early ca","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ReFocus: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi ed. by Penny Bouska and Sotiris Petridis (review)","authors":"Marios Psaras","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908566","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: ReFocus: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi ed. by Penny Bouska and Sotiris Petridis Marios Psaras (bio) Penny Bouska and Sotiris Petridis, editors, ReFocus: The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 238. 25 B&W images. Hardback £90.00. Penny Bouska and Sotiris Petridis’s edited volume The Films of Antoinetta Angelidi is the latest addition to the esteemed ReFocus: The International Directors Series from Edinburgh University Press. The series is dedicated to both renowned and overlooked film directors from world cinema, and its subjects range from Andrei Tarkovsky to Xavier Dolan, François Ozon, and Lucrecia Martel. Antoinetta Angelidi’s work has been discussed and examined in a number of substantial Greek works, including her own essays and interviews and the eponymous publication accompanying a retrospective of her work at the 46th Thessaloniki Film Festival (Theodoraki 2005). The present volume is, however, the first book-length study in English of Angelidi’s oeuvre, and it aims at establishing her within an illustrious lineup of international auteurs while also filling a gap in English-language literature on Greek cinema, which in recent years has mainly focused on the so-called Greek Weird Wave and its main representatives (e.g., Psaras 2016; Papanikolaou 2020; Falvey 2022). Through a fascinating anthology of meditative analyses and interpretations that bring a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to bear on Angelidi’s filmic—and other—work, the volume casts a spotlight on Greek cinema’s perhaps most idiosyncratic voice, one that has, in fact, largely influenced the subversive themes and forms of the Weird Wave. Such attention is only fair, given the rare complexity of the formal experimentation and thematic preoccupations found in Angelidi’s body of work. The book begins with a “Prolegomenon” by Penny Bouska, whose title alone anticipates the collection’s predilection for a deep dive into the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of Angelidi’s oeuvre. In this concise yet dense introduction, Bouska collects rich biographical information from private conversations, interviews, and the filmmaker’s personal archives, shedding light on the events and people who influenced Angelidi to become a pioneer of political avant-garde cinema and visual arts in Greece. From her politically [End Page 310] engaged parents, to the turbulent sociopolitical context of her student years, to her self-exile—to avoid arrest by the Greek junta regime—to France, where she was able to study alongside Christian Metz and Thierry Kuntzel, Angelidi’s formative years were characterized by an amalgam of theoretical, political, and artistic influences which established her as a unique artist and intellectual. Bouska pays attention to Angelidi’s theoretical work insofar as it illuminates the concepts that underlie her artistic output, especially her preoccupations with the formalist mechanism of de","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation ed. by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras and Theodora Patrona (review)","authors":"Carla A. Simonini","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2023.a908568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134934006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}