59 research outputs found
Fear, city, cinema: Urban regeneration as a mental trap in Alexis Alexiou’s film Istoria 52 (Tale 52) (2008)
No full textThe article analyses Alexis Alexiou’s thriller Istoria 52 (Tale 52) (2008) in relation to media and academic discourses on fear and safety in the city. The film’s mise-en-scene does not include any shots of the city, however the off-screen presence of the city is implied as the main driver for the main character’s actions. The film was produced at a time when Athens was undergoing a huge urban regeneration, which remained incomplete, leading to the unwilling coexistence of people from different walks of life. The article offers an analysis of the film’s narrative and, in particular, its spatial dimension, placing it in the context of the contemporaneous urban condition of the Greek capital, which is implied, but not shown, in the film. I argue that the main character’s disturbed mental state, which drives much of the action in the film, is not just a result of an unbalanced psychology. Rather, his desire for isolation and the hyper-protection of private space are reflections of a conservative view on fear and safety in the city, where urban regeneration strategies are simultaneously the solution and the cause of fear and insecurity, trapping people in an endless closed loop
Epithymies kai politiki; i queer istoria tou ellinikou kinimatografou (1924–2016) (Politics and Desire: The Queer History of Greek Cinema (1924–2016)), Konstantinos Kyriakos (2017)
No full textBook details: Knstantinos Kyriakos, Politics and Desire: The Queer History of the Greek Cinema (1924-2016), Athna : Aigokers, 2016, 438 pp., ISBN: 978-9-60-322501-0
Urban fears and spatial transformations:The notion of the shelter in George A. Romero's Series of the Dead
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Data and 'social/sexual' encounters in the city:mappings of potential embodied experiences through geolocative dating apps
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Fear, city, cinema: urban regeneration as mental trap in Alexis Alexiou’s film Istoria 52 (Tale 52)
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Fear of the city and the reciprocl relation to cinema:urban renaissance through horror films and thrillers
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