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Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek Weird Wave: a cinema of biopolitics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 268 - Marios Psarras, The Queer Greek Weird Wave: ethics, politics and the crisis of meaning. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 232.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2023
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1 For the impact of austerity in cinema specifically see: Lee, T., The Public Life of Cinema: conflict and collectivity in austerity Greece (Oakland, 2020)Google Scholar.
2 For a brief presentation of more films of this wave see: S. D. Bose, ‘The 10 essential films from the “Greek Weird Wave’”, n.d., https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/greek-weird-wave-10-best-films/ (accessed 1 March 2023).
3 See, e.g., Warf, B. and Arias, S. (eds), The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Abingdon, 2009)Google Scholar.
4 Indicatively, the crisis’ biggest blockbuster, Worlds Apart by Christopher Papakaliatis (2015), touches on topics questioned by films of the weird wave, such as family, but still using the flashy aesthetics and emotional narrative which made Papakaliatis famous in the 2000s. See Zestanakis, P., ‘“The storyteller who survived”: the Greek crisis through its biggest blockbuster film Worlds Apart by Christopher Papakaliatis (2015)’, Studies in European Cinema 19.4 (2022) 268–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar.