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Cinema might not be able to help heal a broken nation but it can definitely help revisit a nation´s past, reframe its present and re-imagine its future. This is the first book-length study on what has become an internationally acclaimed strand in contemporary Greek cinema. Psaras examines how this particular trend can be thought of as an integral aesthetic response to the infamous Greek crisis, illuminating its fundamental ideological aspects by means of a queer critique of national politics. Drawing on a wide range of methodological approaches from queer theory, film theory, ethical philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume sheds light on the way the Greek Weird Wave challenges, deconstructs and re-imagines traditional notions of Greekness, the Greek nation and the Greek patriarchal family. This is achieved through close textual analysis of the subversive thematics and idiosyncratic forms of six films made by some of the best-known and most celebrated contemporary Greek directors including Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011) by Yorgos Lanthimos, Strella (2009) by Panos H. Koutras, and Attenberg (2010) by Athina-Rachel Tsangaris.

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INTRODUCTION: The Meaning of the Crisis or the Crisis of Meaning.- 1. Hardcore: of the Death Drive.- 2. Dogtooth: of Narrativity.- 3. Strella/ A Woman´s Way: of Queer Utopias.- 4. Attenberg: of (Dis-)Orientation.- 5. Alps: of Hauntology.- 6. Boy Eating the Bird´s Food: of Response-ability.-EPILOGUE.

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Dr Marios Psaras is an independent film scholar and filmmaker. He has taught film theory at King´s College London and Queen Mary University of London and has published on contemporary Greek and French queer cinema. His current research interests include new media and ethics. Psaras has also worked as a film curator, as well as in the radio, television and the theatre.

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