Staff
Chalkou Maria
Member of the Node for Hybrid Arts
Assistant Professor with scientific field "History, Theory and Practice of Cinema".
https://independent.academia.edu/MariaChalkou
Maria Chalkou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University, specializing in the History, Theory, and Practice of Cinema. She teaches History and Theory of Cinema, Greek Cinema, and History, Theory, and Practice of Documentary at the undergraduate level, as well as Digital Storytelling in the MA program "Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Era." She holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Glasgow and a master's degree in Film Theory and Art from the University of Kent. From 2018 to 2022, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and History at the Panteion University within the research program "Censorship in Cinema and Visual Arts: The Greek Experience from the Post-War Era to Today," supported by ELIDEK. Since 2013, she has been the founder and editor of the academic journal Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies. Her research interests focus on Greek and European cinema, cinema of the '60s, cinematic representation of history and the past, film genres, film criticism, and censorship.
Selected publications:
Chalkou, M. (2012). A new cinema of “emancipation”: Tendencies of independence in Greek cinema of the 2000s. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 3(2), 217–231. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.3.2.217_1
Chalkou, M. (2015). Theo Angelopoulos as film critic. In A. Horton (Ed.), The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (pp. 211–224). Edinburgh University Press.
Chalkou, M. (2016). Η επινόηση του τόπου: Νοσταλγία και μνήμη στην Πολίτικη κουζίνα (The invention of place: Nostalgia and memory in A Touch of Spice). Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 2(1), 91–96. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc.2.1.91_1
Chalkou, M., Willert, T. S., & Katsan, G. (2019). Childhood memories, family life, nostalgia, and historical trauma in contemporary Greek cinema. In T. S. Willert, G. Katsan, & M. Chalkou (Eds.), Retelling the past in contemporary Greek literature, film, and popular culture (pp. 101–118). Lexington Books.
Chalkou, M. (2020). Greece: Transnational dynamics in Greek cinema since the crisis. In A. Wydra & D. Mazierska (Eds.), Balkan cinema: Transnational exchanges and global circuits (pp. 179–194). Palgrave Macmillan.
Chalkou, M. (2021). II. Cold War history and beyond. In Y. Tsivian & K. B. Koutsourelis (Eds.), Cultural neighbourhoods and coproductions in South East European cinema (pp. 55–74). University of Macedonia Press.
Chalkou, M. (2022). A dark intrigue of murder: Kierion and Reconstruction, or film noir as politics. In A. Poupou (Ed.), Greek Film Noir (pp. 135–152). De Gruyter Brill.
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