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ATHANASSATOU IOANNA

IOANNA ATHANASATOU

Film Historian and Theorist

Film History • Cultural Analysis • Gender Studies

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Film historian and theorist. Graduate of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with studies in Film Directing at the Stavrakos Film School.

She was a Special Postgraduate Fellow at the Department of Political Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she completed her doctoral dissertation on the ideological function of post-war Greek cinema.

She has also been a visiting scholar at Ohio State University.

Film History Greek Cinema Cultural Analysis Gender Studies Film and Education Theatre and Cinema
Education and Academic Background
  • Graduate of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • Studies in Film Directing at the Stavrakos Film School.
  • Special Postgraduate Fellow at the Department of Political Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • Doctoral dissertation on the ideological function of post-war Greek cinema.
  • Visiting scholar at Ohio State University.
Books and Academic Publications
  • Greek Cinema: Popular Memory and Ideology, 1950–1967 , based on her doctoral dissertation.
  • Contributor to the Hellenic Open University volume Modern Greek Theatre – Cinema. Volume B: Greek Cinema .
  • Editor of the Greek edition of Janet McCabe’s Feminist Film Studies.
  • Co-editor of The Dictatorship 1967–1974: Ideology, Cultural Discourse, Resistance .
Recent Publication
  • Together with Professor George Pefanis, she co-edited the volume Scenes, Images, Gazes: Intersections of Theatre and Cinema , Athens, Hellenic Open University Press, 2021.
Articles and Edited Volumes
She has contributed chapters to edited volumes and published articles in academic journals on cinema, cultural analysis and gender studies.
Research Interests
  • Film history and theory
  • Post-war Greek cinema
  • Cultural analysis
  • Gender studies and cinema
  • Relations between theatre, literature and cinema
  • Film and education
Academic and Professional Collaborations
  • Long-term collaboration with the Drama International Short Film Festival as a critical commentator for both the Greek and International Competition sections.
  • Member of the respective juries of the Drama International Short Film Festival.
  • Collaboration with the Institute of Educational Policy on issues related to film and education.
  • Collaboration with the Danish Institute of Arts.
Conferences
Within the Greek Culture Studies Programme of the Hellenic Open University, she participated in the Organising Committees of the conferences:
  • “Greek Society through the Short Film”
  • “From the Page to the Screen: Relations between Literature and Cinema”
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Since 2001, she has taught in the Postgraduate Programme in Cultural and Film Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • Her teaching includes Film History, Cultural Analysis and Gender Studies.
  • Since 2022, she has taught in the Postgraduate Programme of the Department of Theatre Studies.
  • She has also taught in the Interdepartmental Programme on Gender and Equality of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Hellenic Open University
Since 2011, she has served as a Tutor-Counsellor in the Greek Culture Studies Programme of the Hellenic Open University, in the module Modern Greek Theatre – Cinema .
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
She taught at the Department of Film Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 2004 to 2007.