Review of Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics

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Published: Apr 15, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.31591
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Greek cinema Greek Weird Wave Book review
Valia Kravva
Democritus University of Thrace
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5692-0864
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Review of Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 224 pp.

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Author Biography
Valia Kravva, Democritus University of Thrace

Vasiliki Kravva studied history and archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and since 2011 she has been teaching anthropology at Democritus University of Thrace, where she is an Associate Professor. In 1994, she studied cultural anthropology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. She completed an MA and a PhD on social anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her thesis is concerned with issues of food and identity among the Jews of Thessaloniki. She has participated in a number of conferences and seminars in Greece and Europe and has published on issues of food and identity food entitlement, embodied memory, religious performativity, oral histories and minority issues. She has taught courses on “Social Anthropology” at the University of London, “Food and Anthropology” and “Political Anthropology” at several Greek universities and lectured (2012–13) at the Hellenic Open University. From 2005–2007, she was a researcher on the CENTROPA project (oral history project), which was concerned with the pre-War and post-War lives of European and especially Balkan Jews. Recent scientific interests include consumption, urban poverty, social care, homelessness and mental health. Selected publications include “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you if you are Jewish”: Food and Discourses of Identity (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010); Καταναλώνοντας τον πολιτισμό, Διαδρομές κατανάλωσης, ιστορίες τροφής και στέρησης [Consuming culture: Stories on food and deprivation] (Athens: Patakis, 2020); and, with Manos Spyridakis, eds., Τροχιές Επισφάλειας: Εθνογραφικές προσεγγίσεις [Trajectories of precarity: Ethnographic reflections] (Athens: Gutenberg, 2021).