The treatment of immigration and identity in Greek Cinema in recent years is the subject of a new book by independent film scholar Dr Phillip E Phillis.

The book, Greek Cinema and Migration, 1991-2016, examines the representations of migrants and refugees through a wide selection of case studies that reflect Greek filmmakers’ fascination with migration, mobility, borders and security.

Landmark films such as The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), The Way to the West (2003), Man at Sea (2011) are among the many films that are examined by the author in this book.

Publishers Edinburgh University Press describe the book as a  ground-breaking book that: “provides an in-depth understanding of contemporary Greek cinema and its direct correlation to the country’s ongoing struggles to implement European modernity.”

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Dr Phillis holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Glasgow where he also taught film and media studies. He is co editor of a special edition on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures in The Journal of Greek Film Studies Filmicon and helped to organise the first Contemporary Greek Film Cultures conference in 2013.

Greek Cinema and Migration, 1991-2016 by Dr Phillip E Phillis (ISBN 9781474437035) is published by Edinburgh University Press.