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.
