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Intellect is delighted to announce the new issue of Journal of Greek Media & Culture 1.2. This is an interdisciplinary journal that aims to provide a platform for debate and exploration of a wide range of manifestations of media and culture in and about Greece.

 

This recent issue is a special issue on Cavafy Pop.

 

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List of articles (partial list):

 

Perverse fragments: Citing Cavafy in crisis-stricken Athens 
pp. 191-205(15) 
Author: Plantzos, Dimitris

A publicity campaign run in Athens by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation in October 2013 in order to advertise its acquisition of the Cavafy Archive. In this article, Plantzos looks at this rather entertaining story of misunderstood intentions.

 

Once, in the streets of a Spanish town: On Rogelio López Cuenca and his Calle Cavafis 
pp. 207-226(20) 
Authors: Fernández González, Vicente; Nicolaidou, Ioanna

This article aims to place Rogelio López Cuenca’s artistic intervention in the reception (different readings and uses) of Cavafy’s poetry in Spain and Latin America, and at the same time to inquire into the aesthetic and political presuppositions that inform it.

 

Photographic adaptations of Cavafy 
pp. 253-277(25) 
Author: Papargyriou, Eleni

This article offers a critical discussion of photographic projects based on Cavafy’s poetry. It begins with an overview of the theoretical implications of photographing poetry within the wider framework of photography and literature as fields interconnected in their narrative concerns.

 

The pensive spectator, the possessive reader and the archive of queer feelings: A reading of Constantine Giannaris’s Trojans 
pp. 279-297(19) 
Author: Papanikolaou, Dimitris

This article provides a detailed reading of Trojans, the medium-length feature film by Constantine Giannaris on the life and work of C. P. Cavafy, released in 1990.

 

Cavafy reanimated: Intermedial transformations in comics and animation 
pp. 299-319(21) 
Authors: Diamantopoulou, Lilia; Stoikou, Zyranna

This article focuses on the intermedial transformations/translations of Cavafy’s work into comics, animations and film. 

 

This special issue concludes with various book, festival and workshop reviews.

 

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Kind regards,

Eden

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