[MGSA-L] Modern Greek Seminar, Columbia University - Erato Basea on Contemporary New Wave Films, Tuesday April 1st, at 7:30 p.m.

[Evangelos Calotychos]

> The Modern Greek Seminar
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> at the University Seminars Program
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> & The Program in Hellenic Studies,
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> Columbia University
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> invite you to a lecture by
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> ERATO BASEA
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> (Stavros S. Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University)
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> “Poverty Porn: Performing the National and Mapping the Cosmopolitical in Contemporary New Wave Films”
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> On Tuesday, April 1st
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> At 7:30 p.m., Hamilton Hall 613
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> Abstract:
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> In contemporary cinema, a series of ‘new waves’ are treated as examples of national cinemas originating from crisis-ridden countries, most notably Greece, Romania and Argentina. Thus a paradox: this seems to happen all the more so today, while the expansion of neoliberalism has lead to the erosion of nation-states, their people and national state apparatuses. A question therefore immediately arises: to what extent can a contemporary ‘new wave’ be seen as national? Taking an eclectic, comparative approach to ‘new wave’ filmmaking and building upon the theory of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, this paper intends to advance a balanced and context-rich understanding of how certain ‘new wave’ films are situated in both a local and a global context. The paper explores the inextricable link between the local and the global in contemporary ‘new wave’ films at four levels: (i) the level of production (ii) the level of distribution and exhibition (iii) the level of aesthetics and, finally, (iv) the level of reception. A further aim of this paper is to explore the channels through which filmmakers generally associated with ‘new wave’ filmmaking can become cosmopolitical subjects who work under conditions of national and global crisis.
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> Erato Basea is a 2012-2014 Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow in Film at Columbia University, currently exploring how key filmmakers who work in the periphery use their border poetics to challenge and transcend the power relations inscribed at the margins, be they geographical, industrial, ideological or otherwise. Erato read Classics at the University of Athens, and completed a Master’s degree in Modern Languages at Oxford. In 2011, she successfully completed her D.Phil. thesis on the French and Greek Cinema d’auteur under the supervision of Dr. Dimitris Papanikolaou. She has taught literature, language and film at Oxford and SciencesPo, and she is currently teaching the course Topics in Greek Film at Columbia. Her publication ‘My Life in Ruins. Hollywood and Holidays in Times of Crisis’ appeared in the journal Interactions. 
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