Cinematic Dance as a Local Critical Commentary on the ‘Economic Crisis’:

Pateraki, Mimina

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“…The film Zorba the Greek by Michalis Cacoyannis (1964) was filmed and first screened in the 1960s and was part of a dual national effort aimed at the international acclaim of Greek cinema and the promotion of Greece as a tourist destination 13 (Pateraki and Mountakis 2013) in the wider context where the cinematic depiction of the Greekness of tourism and the nouveau-riche is formed (Papadimitriou 2009). The film was based on the well-known novel The Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas by Nikos Kazantzakis, authored about twenty years prior, during the German Occupation in 1943, one of the most translated Greek literary texts.…”

Section: A Zorba the Greek (1964): Historical Context And Global Acclaimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sport and Nationalism in Celebrations of Mega Events. Dancing victory with Zorba the Greek

Pateraki

2023

Studia Ethnologica Croatica

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The present paper explores the negotiation of national identity in contemporary mega sporting events. The study focuses on certain performances of Greekness through Zorba’s dance in national sporting victories, especially in basketball. The attention shifts onto wider nationalisation processes by highlighting the socio-political relations of sport. The fieldwork took place in the broader area of Athens (Attica) and Patras (Peloponnese), between September 2020 and September 2022. It was based on Visual Anthropology methods, working with interlocutors who are engaged with sports in various ways. Through endearing habits, athletes and fans can constitute different embodied performances inside and outside the stadiums, where sport as a performative place of collectivity and solidarity invites a continuous embodied creative action highlighting how complex, versatile, and political it can be.

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Section: A Zorba the Greek (1964): Historical Context And Global Acclaimmentioning

confidence: 99%