The Old Greeks by George Kouvaros - ISBN: 9781742589923
Paperback
Migration, memory, and media collide, revealing new perspectives on identity.

The Old Greeks

Cinema, Photography, Migration

  • Paperback

    250 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2018

Summary

How should the people that initiated a journey be remembered? What obligations arise as a result of their passing away? What role do films and photographs play in the process of memorialisation?

Drawing on the events surrounding the author’s family in Australia from Cyprus, The Old Greeks traces how film and photography serve as toolkits for making sense of the experience of migration—at the level of everyday life and creative practice. “The cinema is not just an art, a cultu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742589923
ISBN-10:1742589928
Author:George Kouvaros
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWAP
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:250
Release Date:1 September 2018
Weight:190g
Dimensions:21mm x 198mm x 131mm
About The Author

George Kouvaros

George Kouvaros is Professor of Film Studies in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW. He is the author of numerous books, journal articles and book chapters on aspects of film, photography and visual culture. His work has been published in New German Critique, Screen, Paragraph, Textual Practice, Cultural Studies Review, Life Writing, Southerly and Convergence.

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