Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? This book explores the development of contemporary Greek-Cypriot cinema in response to the crisis of history, the burden of memory and the dislocation of the island’s geographical spaces as a result of the war.

Lisa Socrates is a PhD candidate at University College London. She has published articles on Greek-Cypriot national cinema and identity and has translated Greek-Cypriot poetry from Modern Greek into English.

Contents: Nation, Identity, History – Reading Greek-Cypriot Cinema: Deleuze and New Cinema – Conceptualizing Greek-Cypriot Cinema – Contesting the Nation’s Narrative Space and Time: The Controversy – Shattered Spaces and the Recollection-Image – The Time-Image and Beyond: From Duration to the Crisis-Image – Constructing Heterotopias in Film: Parallel Spaces and Undesirable Bodies in – The Border, Movement and Chronotopic-Images.