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Dr George Kouvaros is Professor of Film Studies in the School of the Arts and Media. Located at the intersection of film and media studies, Professor Kouvaros’ writings can be divided into two inter-related bodies of work. The first examines how the interactions between different media influenced the nature of artistic experimentation in the postwar period; the second and most recent body of work deals with the relationship between...view more
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Robert Frank is one of the twentieth century's most important photographers. His book The Americans revolutionised postwar photography, offering a radically new approach to the nexus of photographic representation and national identity. Its depiction of alienation, deceptively casual compositional style and juxtaposition of images influenced generations of photographers, filmmakers and visual artists both within the US and abroad. Since then, Frank has produced a body of work that spans film, photography and writing. This study uses Frank's seminal cross-media experiments to rewrite the…
The project aims to revise our understanding of how migrants integrated into post-war Australia by examining everyday life histories as mediated through individual and social memory. Taking a cluster of Sydney’s post-war Greek neighbourhoods as its case studies, it will document how Greek migrants formed friendships and enmities, exchanged information and rumours, and, more generally, got on with the process of settlement. It will construct a corpus of oral histories, photographs and primary materials, archived in the State Library of NSW, that will reveal to …
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The Old Greeks: Photography, Cinema, Migration
Drawing on the events surrounding the arrival of the author’s family in Australia from Cyprus, The Old Greeks traces how film and photography serve as toolkits for making sense of the experience of migration—at the levels of everyday life and creative practice. Combining elements of aut...
Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema
Until now, celebrated photographer Robert Frank’s daring and unconventional work as a filmmaker has not been awarded the critical notice it deserves. In this timely volume, George Kouvaros surveys Frank’s films and videos and places them in the larger context of experimentation in Ameri...
Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America
Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves offers a multilayered study of the Magnum photographs from the 1961 film The Misfits. By closely scrutinizing the images from one of America’s most haunting and least understood films, George Kouvaros presents a new recognition of the connection between t...
Paul Schrader
As the first full-length study on Paul Schrader's films, this book examines the different styles of his work and the multiple influences on which it draws. A defining feature of Schrader's career is his capacity to engage in a range of collaborations and production contexts wh...
Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point
“A good movie,” John Cassavetes has remarked, “will ask you questions you don’t already know the answers to.” And in his films, Cassavetes is as good as his word. Taking up the radical question that Cassavetes’s films consistently pose—specifically, where is the line between actor and c...