Hardcore: Of the Death Drive
Chapter 2 reads Denis Iliades’s Hardcore (2004) as an aesthetic embodiment of the fundamental psychoanalytic pendulum between desire and the drive, drawing on post-Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary queer theory, particularly Lee Edelman’s conceptua
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MARIOS PSARAS
The Queer Greek Weird Wave
Marios Psaras
The Queer Greek Weird Wave Ethics, Politics and the Crisis of Meaning
Marios Psaras
ISBN 978-3-319-40309-0 ISBN 978-3-319-40310-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40310-6
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To my family, the blood and the chosen
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
An earlier version of the material on Hardcore that appears in Chap. 1 was published as Marios Psaras, ‘Soft Fantasies, Hardcore Realities: Greekness and the Death Drive in Dennis Iliades’s Hardcore’, in M. Photiou, T. Kazakopoulou and P. Phillis (eds), Contemporary Greek Film Cultures, Special Issue of Filmicon, 2, 2014, 133–155, and is reprinted here by kind permission of Filmicon. An earlier version of the material on Strella/A Woman’s Way that appears in Chap. 3 was published as Marios Psaras, ‘No Country for Old Faggots: Breaking with the Parental Home and Exploring Queer Utopias in Panos Koutras’s Strella (2009)’, in Tonia Kazakopoulou and Mikela Fotiou (eds), Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016), and is reprinted here by kind permission of Peter Lang. I would like to express a deep gratitude to my mentors Robert Gillett and Libby Saxton for the many inspirational conversations about film, ethics and queerness, their astute remarks on my text and for always pushing for clarification. I am also grateful to Rosalind Galt and Lydia Papadimitriou for their helpful comments and insights on my doctoral thesis, from which this book was developed. Finally, I am greatly indebted to a number of people that have surrounded me with unflagging suppor
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