The ‘Post-’ in the ‘Modern’. Greek Film Music and the Work of Nikos Mamangakisa
The ‘Post-’ in the ‘Modern’. Greek Film Music and the Work of Nikos Mamangakisa

Summary/Abstract: This article is focused on Nikos Mamangakis, one of the most ambiguous art-popular composers in Greece. His compositions for cinema are also quite provocative. Mamangakis’ cooperation with Finos Film (the major Greek film production company in post-war era) and, on the contrary, his collaboration with Nikos Perakis (one of the most well-known contemporary film directors) vividly illustrate the transformation of film music from the socalled Old to the New Greek Cinema. Through an overall analysis of two of Mamangakis’ most important film scores, I hope to reveal the transition process from a realistic modernist perspective to a postmodern one. A second goal is to present critically the general ideological shift in Greek socio-cultural sphere following the seventies change of polity. This paper underlines the perception of Greek music culture as a special case of Western music, which however holds its very distinct stylistic idioms, cultural practices and ideological functions.

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