Zorba the Greek, Sixties exotica and a new cinema in Hollywood and Greece
| Autor: | Erato Basea |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in European Cinema. 12:60-76 |
| ISSN: | 2040-0594 1741-1548 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17411548.2015.1015830 |
| Popis: | Zorba the Greek (1964), Michael Cacoyannis’s film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba (1946), poses a serious problem of classification within a national specific context. And yet, the article argues that the film found a central place in Hollywood and Greece in the 1960s. This was a time when both industries were encouraging a new cinema with commercial potential but also art qualities. Playing with musical genre codes and postcolonial discourses about Greece, the film invites Western audiences to assume the gaze of the foreigner protagonist and look at an exotic Greece. It is argued that, if seen in the light of its industrial and socio-political context of production and reception, the film was carefully designed to become a Hollywood runaway production directed by an acknowledged European auteur and a movie that would attract pleasure-seeking audiences and tourists. |
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