Lydia Papadimitriou

Lydia Papadimitriou , Greek Λυδία Παπαδημητρίου (born March 24, 1966 ) is a Greek film scholar and neo-Greekist .

Papadimitriou studied acting at the Drama School of the Greek National Theater . After obtaining her diploma in 1986, she completed postgraduate studies in Central and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Athens , which she completed in 1988. In 1990 she earned a postgraduate certificate in Drama Studies from Bristol University . She completed her PhD in film studies at the University of Kent in 1996 with a dissertation entitled The Greek Film Musical (1955–75): Film Genre and Cultural Identity . Since 1997 she has been a senior lecturer in film studies at Liverpool John Moores University .

Papadimitriou works on Greek and European cinema , in particular on the cinema of the Balkans, the Middle East and the post-communist era, on musicals , on war and documentary films .

Fonts (selection)

• with Yannis Tzioumakis (Ed.): Greek cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities. Bristol: Intellect 2011.
• The Greek Film Musical: A Critical and Cultural History. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland 2006. Greek translation: Το Μιούζικαλ στον Ελληνικό Κινηµατογράφο (1955–75). Athens, Papazisis 2009.
• Sans-souci. Christian Boltanski interviewed by Mark Durden and Lydia Papadimitriou (April / May 1992) , in: David Brittain (ed.): Creative Camera: Thirty Years of Writing. Manchester University Press, 1999, 213-219, online

Web links

• Personal page at Liverpool John Moores University (short biography and list of publications). Archived from the original on May 30, 2013 ; Retrieved April 21, 2015 . 
• academia.eu: Personal page (short biography and list of publications)