Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis. John Howard
Языкознание. BIBLIOTECA JAVIER COY D'ESTUDIS NORD-AMERICANS
Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis
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isbn 9788491349570
Автор произведения John Howard
Жанр Языкознание
Серия BIBLIOTECA JAVIER COY D'ESTUDIS NORD-AMERICANS
Издательство Bookwire
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.