TY - CHAP
T1 - 27 March 2001 The last flight departs from Elliniko Airport
T2 - narratives of “modernisation” of the Greek city and Greek cinema
AU - Kallitsis, Phevos
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Initiating from the closing of the Ellinikon Airport in Athens in 2001 and the opening of the new international airport at the east of the greek capital, the chapter discusses how contemporary Greek Cinema interweaves with global, national and local changes in the greek city. Using a range of examples of Greek films, the chapter looks the contradictory urban narratives of tourism, cosmopolitanism and the "city of others", tracing the parallels between urban realities and fiction.
AB - Initiating from the closing of the Ellinikon Airport in Athens in 2001 and the opening of the new international airport at the east of the greek capital, the chapter discusses how contemporary Greek Cinema interweaves with global, national and local changes in the greek city. Using a range of examples of Greek films, the chapter looks the contradictory urban narratives of tourism, cosmopolitanism and the "city of others", tracing the parallels between urban realities and fiction.
KW - Greek cinema
KW - urban studies
KW - urban regeneration
KW - urban memory
KW - cityscapes
KW - film studies
UR - https://www.publishersglobal.com/directory/publisher-profile/5509
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9789605043261
SP - 277
EP - 285
BT - Motherland, I See You
A2 - Nikolaidou, Afroditi
A2 - Papanikolaou, Dimitris
PB - Nefeli
CY - Athens
ER -