CHRISTINA ADAMOU

Christina Adamou is a lecturer of Film Theory at the Film Department of the School of Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She is a graduate of the Department of Theatrical Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and her doctoral thesis was about the adaptation of the plays of Samuel Beckett for the cinema and television, at the University of Reading, UK (2000-2003). Since 2001, she has been teaching classes in film and television history and theory at the Royal Holloway, University of London, at the University of Reading and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She was a lecturer at the University of Reading (2003-2005), where she was also in charge of the research seminars for the teaching staff.

She is a member of the European program for the preservation of audiovisual files, the Videoactive και European Television History Network.

Her research interests center in the presentation of gender, modernism and post-modernism. Her publications in Greece and abroad include articles and chapters about the adaptation of the plays of Beckett to television and cinema, the history of Greek television, the directorial approaches to ancient Greek drama and the presentation of women in action films. She is the editor of the collaborative work entitled The actor between the stage and the screen (Kastaniotis, 2008). Her next book will center on the presentation of gender in action films.