Papers by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
Motherland, I See You: The 20th Century of Greek Cinema, 2022
Filmicon Journal of Greek Film Studies, 2014
DIMO S AVDELIODIS, GREECE, 1999 I Earini Synaxis Ton Agrofylakon (The Four Seasons of the Law, Di... more DIMO S AVDELIODIS, GREECE, 1999 I Earini Synaxis Ton Agrofylakon (The Four Seasons of the Law, Dimos Avdeliodis, 1999 is an absurdist comedy, the title of which translates literally as 'The Spring Gathering of th e Field Guards'. lt is divided into four parts, one for each of the four seasons, and chronicles the efforts of four different field guards to police the produce grown around the farming village of Th olopotami (on the island of Chios), which has a reputation for uncanny occurrences.
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2000
Jules Dassin's Never on Sunday (1959) relies on the structural and stylistic conventions of the A... more Jules Dassin's Never on Sunday (1959) relies on the structural and stylistic conventions of the American film musical to portray the conflict between two mutually exclusive understandings of Greekness—one valorizing the ancient past and the other, the modern present. The smooth passage from the narrative
segments into the music and dance sequences associates popular modern Greek
culture with the fusion of work and play that is exemplified in the combination
of prostitution and unrestrained sexuality. In the deployment of the voyeuristic
visual economy of the show or backstage musical, modern Greekness is
feminized in accordance with the gender stereotypes that determine the
articulation of the Hollywood musical’s style and structure. As a result, the
film depicts Greek ethnocultural specificity as naive carnality and unreflexive
pathos.
Book Reviews by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
Conference Presentations by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
Programme Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going
Presentation delivered at the Modern Greek Studies Association's 27th biennial Symposium, York Un... more Presentation delivered at the Modern Greek Studies Association's 27th biennial Symposium, York University, Toronto CA.
Presentation in the 17th international Domitor Conference (online) under the theme: "Copy/Rights ... more Presentation in the 17th international Domitor Conference (online) under the theme: "Copy/Rights and Early Cinema"
Abstract of the presentation delivered at the 15th international Domitor conference at Rochester,... more Abstract of the presentation delivered at the 15th international Domitor conference at Rochester, NY (13-16 June, 2018).
Villar’s Adventures/Oi peripeteies tou Villar, shot in 1924 by Josef Hepp, is one of the earliest... more Villar’s Adventures/Oi peripeteies tou Villar, shot in 1924 by Josef Hepp, is one of the earliest surviving narrative films produced in Greece. Villar’s Adventures looks like a compendium of narrative and thematic elements from the early and transitional periods of the silent era as they evolved in the Euro-American centers of film production. It features: car chases; slapstick; circus performers; a chaplinesque main character; a black “jazz” singer; tourist travel film elements; a spoof of the Lumières’ L’Arroseur arrosé; and an interracial same-sex kiss vaguely reminiscent of Edison’s What happened in the tunnel (1903). In my presentation I examine the racial coding of the physicality already embedded in this borrowed material and Hepp’s re-coding of it in juxtaposition to the Athenian cityscape of the early 1920s, notably, the antiquities, neo-classical buildings and urban sociability. (Presented at the 2016 Domitor conference in Stockholm)
Talks by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
Ημερίδα του Πολιτιστικού Ιδρύματος Ομίλου Πειραιώς (ΠΙΟΠ) και της Ελληνικής Αρχειακής Εταιρείας (... more Ημερίδα του Πολιτιστικού Ιδρύματος Ομίλου Πειραιώς (ΠΙΟΠ) και της Ελληνικής Αρχειακής Εταιρείας (ΕΑΕ) με τίτλο «Οπτικοακουστικά Αρχεία: Ζητήματα Διαχείρησης και Πρόσβασης». Η συνάντηση πραγματοποιήθηκε με την ευκαιρία της Παγκόσμιας Ημέρας Οπτικοακουστικής Κληρονομιάς, όπως αυτή καθιερώθηκε από τη Γενική Διάσκεψη της UNESCO, για την ανάδειξη της οπτικοακουστικής αρχειακής κληρονομιάς ως μέσου καταγραφής της ανθρώπινης δράσης και διάσωσης της ιστορικής μνήμης.
Screening of With the Greeks in the Firing Line (1913) with live commentary at the amphitheater o... more Screening of With the Greeks in the Firing Line (1913) with live commentary at the amphitheater of the Ethnographic Museum of Arachova (Λαογραφικό Μουσείο Αράχωβας). September 14, 2019.
On February 5, 2019 the Gennadius Library presented the Greek premiere of two extremely rare non-... more On February 5, 2019 the Gennadius Library presented the Greek premiere of two extremely rare non-fiction films that were recently restored: With the Greeks in the Firing Line and The Triumphal March of the Greeks. Both date from 1913 and were commissioned by the Greek government as part of its diplomatic efforts to obtain a favorable adjudication from the Great Powers regarding the final status of Ottoman territories captured by the Greek Army during the First and Second Balkan Wars. With the Greeks and The Triumphal March were produced by the German company Express-Films Co. of Freiburg (Breisgau) and screened internationally starting in late 1913.
The nitrate copies used for the restoration came from the English-language version of the films that circulated in the United States. They first surfaced in the 1990s in San Francisco as an anonymous donation to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. From there they were transferred to the UCLA Film and Television Archive for proper storage. With the Greeks and The Triumphal March were photochemically preserved, restored and digitized in 2013 with the support of the Packard Humanities Institute. They premiered the same year under the single title With the Greeks in the Firing Line at the UCLA Festival of Preservation.
The Gennadius screening was accompanied by live commentary with emphasis on the historicity of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 as reflected in the films’ content and in the circumstances of their production.
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segments into the music and dance sequences associates popular modern Greek
culture with the fusion of work and play that is exemplified in the combination
of prostitution and unrestrained sexuality. In the deployment of the voyeuristic
visual economy of the show or backstage musical, modern Greekness is
feminized in accordance with the gender stereotypes that determine the
articulation of the Hollywood musical’s style and structure. As a result, the
film depicts Greek ethnocultural specificity as naive carnality and unreflexive
pathos.
Book Reviews by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
Conference Presentations by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
Talks by Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou
The nitrate copies used for the restoration came from the English-language version of the films that circulated in the United States. They first surfaced in the 1990s in San Francisco as an anonymous donation to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. From there they were transferred to the UCLA Film and Television Archive for proper storage. With the Greeks and The Triumphal March were photochemically preserved, restored and digitized in 2013 with the support of the Packard Humanities Institute. They premiered the same year under the single title With the Greeks in the Firing Line at the UCLA Festival of Preservation.
The Gennadius screening was accompanied by live commentary with emphasis on the historicity of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 as reflected in the films’ content and in the circumstances of their production.
segments into the music and dance sequences associates popular modern Greek
culture with the fusion of work and play that is exemplified in the combination
of prostitution and unrestrained sexuality. In the deployment of the voyeuristic
visual economy of the show or backstage musical, modern Greekness is
feminized in accordance with the gender stereotypes that determine the
articulation of the Hollywood musical’s style and structure. As a result, the
film depicts Greek ethnocultural specificity as naive carnality and unreflexive
pathos.
The nitrate copies used for the restoration came from the English-language version of the films that circulated in the United States. They first surfaced in the 1990s in San Francisco as an anonymous donation to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. From there they were transferred to the UCLA Film and Television Archive for proper storage. With the Greeks and The Triumphal March were photochemically preserved, restored and digitized in 2013 with the support of the Packard Humanities Institute. They premiered the same year under the single title With the Greeks in the Firing Line at the UCLA Festival of Preservation.
The Gennadius screening was accompanied by live commentary with emphasis on the historicity of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 as reflected in the films’ content and in the circumstances of their production.