Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis

Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis

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Publisher Description

This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner 'Zorba the Greek', Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across several continents and languages, he forwarded feminist, humanist, and pacifist agendas, as he further innovated crafty LGBT narratives of unprecedented artistry and complexity. Despite intense persecution during the Cold War red scare and lavender scare, his casts and crews of frugal cosmopolitans critiqued racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Avoiding censorship, job loss, and jail, Michael thereby laid foundations for the 1990s new queer cinema and set the stage for empowering dramas of socio-economic justice in the third millennium. Over his long life and productive career, Michael exposed and espoused the vital truths up his sleeve.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
April 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
298
Pages
PUBLISHER
Publicacions de la Universitat de València
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
1.7
MB
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