School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Dimitris Eleftheriotis

Dimitris
  • Reader (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

email: Dimitris.Eleftheriotis@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Tuesday 12-2pm

Research Interests

World cinema; film theory; transcultural aspects of cinema, movement in film.

Biography

  • BA (Warwick)
  • PhD (Strathclyde)
Jump to: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 | 2001
Number of items: 23.

2012

Eleftheriotis, D. (2012) Hayalleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Fatih Akın'ın Birleşen Yolları [Re-working fantasies: Fatih Akin's converging routes]. In: Bayarakdar, D. (ed.) Türk Film Araştirmalarinda Yeni Yönelimler 10: Sinema ve Hayal [New Directions in Turkish Film Studies 10: Cinema and Fantasy]. Baglam, Istanbul, Turkey. ISBN 9786055809539

Eleftheriotis, D. (2012) Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748649389

Eleftheriotis, D. (2012) Banal or extraordinary? Pedagogical dilemmas in the new audiovisual environment. AΩ . (In Press)

Eleftheriotis, D. (2012) The foreignness of Dassin: notes on cosmopolitan authorship. Screen, 53 (4). ISSN 0036-9543 (In Press)

2011

Eleftheriotis, D. (2011) Johnny Oro. In: Bayman, L. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: Italy. Intellect, Bristol, UK, pp. 220-222. ISBN 9781841504001

Eleftheriotis, D. (2011) A touch of spice: mobility and popularity. In: Papadimitriou, L. and Tzioumakis, Y. (eds.) Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities. Intellect, Bristol, pp. 17-36. ISBN 9781841504339

2010

Eleftheriotis, D. (2010) Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748633128

2007

Eleftheriotis, D., Pratt, M., and Vanni, I. (2007) Unhomely Europes. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 4 (2).

2006

Eleftheriotis, D. (2006) A cultural colony of India: Indian films in Greece in the 1950s and 1960s. South Asian Popular Culture, 4 (2). pp. 101-112. ISSN 1474-6697 (doi:10.1080/14746680600797053)

Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G., eds. (2006) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0748617779

Eleftheriotis, D. (2006) Cross-cultural criticism and Chinese cinema. In: Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G. (eds.) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 148-155. ISBN 9780748617760

Eleftheriotis, D. (2006) Genre criticism and popular Indian cinema. In: Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G. (eds.) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 272-279. ISBN 9780748617760

Eleftheriotis, D. (2006) Introduction. In: Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G. (eds.) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh Univesity Press , Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9780748617760

Eleftheriotis, D. (2006) Turkish national cinema. In: Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G. (eds.) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 220-228. ISBN 9780748617760

Eleftheriotis, D., and Needham, G. (2006) Bruce Lee: stardom and identity. In: Eleftheriotis, D. and Needham, G. (eds.) Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 405-413. ISBN 9780748617760

Eleftheriotis, D., and Iordanova, D. (2006) Indian cinema in the world. South Asian Popular Culture, 4 (2). pp. 79-82. ISSN 1474-6689 (doi:10.1080/14746680600796923)

2005

Eleftheriotis, D. (2005) Early cinema as a child: historical metaphor and European cinephilia in Lumiere & Company. Screen, 46 (3). pp. 315-328. ISSN 0036-9543

2004

Eleftheriotis, D. (2004) Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema: re-defining the frame of reference. In: Tasker, Y. (ed.) Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415235068

2002

Eleftheriotis, D. (2002) Interruptions in open air cinemas: Greek culture and cinema in the 1960s. Optikoakousitiki Cultura, 1 . pp. 167-180. ISSN 1109-3684

Eleftheriotis, D. (2002) Global visions and European perspectives. In: Sardar, Z. and Cubitt, S. (eds.) Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema. Pluto Press, London, UK. ISBN 9780745315447

2001

Eleftheriotis, D. (2001) Cultural difference and exchange: a future for European film. In: Sitarskiego, P. (ed.) Kino Eyropy. Rabid, Krakow, Poland, pp. 133-142.

Eleftheriotis, D. (2001) Popular Cinemas of Europe: Studies of Texts, Contexts and Frameworks. Continuum. ISBN 082645593X

Eleftheriotis, D. (2001) Video poetics: technology, aesthetics and politics. In: Gwozdz, A. (ed.) Widziec, Myslec, Byc: Technologie Mediów. Universitas, Krakow, Poland, pp. 341-359. ISBN 9788370525934

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Dimitris has supervised to completion PhD theses on: film comedies, the Spanish Civil War in film, Deleuze and film theory, language in European cinema, pastiche and parody in avant garde cinema, and New Greek cinema.

Current Students

  • Rebecca Bartlett: 'b-movies, including the films of Ed Wood, Roger Corman and William Castle.’
  • Michael MacKenzie: 'Giallo and gender.'
  • Allison Macleod: 'The Cinematic Construction of the Irishman’
  • Fillippo Filis: 'Displaced Identities: the representation of Albanian immigrants in the films of Constantinos Giannaris, George Korras and Angeliki Antoniou.'
  • Mikela Fotiou: 'Greek filmmaker Nikos Nikolaidis and his work and how he represents the women in his films.'
  • Mohammad Hesampour: 'Public service broadcasting in the UK and Iran.'

 

Completed PhDs

  • 'Narrative Cinema in Cultures of Censorship: Politics, Aesthetics, Memory.'
  • 'Representation of US characters in civil war films set outside the US.'
  • 'Developing Cinematic Culture: A South American Case Study.'
  • ‘The Creation of “New Greek Cinema”’
  • ‘Film in Contemporary Art’
  • ‘Language in European Cinema’
  • ‘The Spanish Civil War in Film’
  • ‘Deleuze and Film Theory’
  • ‘Gender in Hollywood Comedies’

 

Administration

  • Deputy Head of the School of Culture and Creative Arts
  • Head of Subject, Theatre, Film and Television Studies

External Responsibilities


  • Member, Editorial Board of Portal
  • Member, Advisory Editorial Board of Screen

Other Publications

Invited guest editor of special issues:

  • Contesting Euro Visions, special issue of Portal, vol. 4, no. 2 (October 2007); with Murray Pratt & Ilaria Vanni, 147 pages
  • Indian Cinema Abroad: Transnational Historiography of Cinematic Exchanges, special issue of South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 4, no. 2, October 2006; with Dina Iordanova

Films

 Dimitris was involved in the production of two award-winning films in Greece (Nilo, 1979, The Dream Factory, 1990).