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Achilleas Hadjikyriacou

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Achilleas Hadjikyriacou

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  1. London School of Economics3rd Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium14th - 15th June 2007‘What a Greek Man had to do’. Studying, Remembering and Representing Masculinity, Gender Relations and Family Structures in Greece from the End of the Civil War (1949) until the Colonels’ Coup d’ Etat (1967) Achilleas Hadjikyriacou European University Institute, Florence

  2. Research aims • To investigate the way that masculinity and gender relations were experienced in urban and rural societies. • To explore representations of male identity and gender relations in Greek cinema 1950- 1967. • To explore the impact of cultural transfers in the form of modernisation on the society and its representations on screen.

  3. Main research questions (1) • How are masculinity and gender relations in urban and rural societies described by social anthropologists, sociologists, and social historians? • How do films of the period 1950-1967 represent the male in urban and rural societies? • In which ways has Hollywood influenced the representation of young males in the Greek Cinema?

  4. Main research questions (2) • How did members of urban and rural societies experience gender issues at the time? • How did these people interact with cinematic representations? • What do people who had been involved in the Greek cinema industry have to say about gender representations?

  5. Main issues addressed • Matters of behaviour • Images • Structure of the family • Male- female spheres • Public- private spheres • Modernity- Tradition • Hegemonic- Subordinate masculinities

  6. General comments • Existing bibliography • Large British- US literature on masculinity in films provides the theoretical background. • Most writers lack historicity. • No previous research in masculinity and gender relations in Greek cinema. • Sources for analysis • Films • Film critiques from newspapers and magazines • Posters and other advertisements • Literature from the fields of anthropology and sociology. • Oral testimonies

  7. Main parts of Paper (1) • Chapter 1: Analysing cinema: the interaction between films and audiences. Theories, methods and examples of gender representation and reception i. What kind of man is he? What kind of man am I? Representing masculinity in the cinema. ii. Did man create Hollywood or Hollywood created man? Representations of masculinity in post-war American Cinema. iii. ‘Film history has been the history of boys photographing girls’. Feminism and Psychoanalysis in film theory.

  8. Main parts of Paper (2) • Chapter 2: Masculinity and gender relations in rural Greece as pictured by social anthropologists. A literature review. • Chapter 3: Can Oral History provide insights into the analysis of gender issues?

  9. Main parts of Paper (3) • Chapter 4: An introduction to the productions of ‘Greek Hollywood’ 1950-67. Genres, themes, star-system, representations and the audience • Chapter 5: Representations of Masculinity and Gender Relations in Stella (1955)and Mandalena (1960)

  10. Comments-Questions-Suggestions

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