By Professor George Kouvaros

Books

Kouvaros G, 2024, Patrimonies Essays on Generational Thinking

Kouvaros G, 2018, The Old Greeks: Photography, Cinema, Migration, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, WA

Kouvaros G, 2015, Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank’s American Cinema, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

Kouvaros G, 2010, Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

Kouvaros G, 2008, Paul Schrader, University of Illinios Press, Urbana and Chicago

Kouvaros G, 2004, Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

Kouvaros G; Stern L, 1999, Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, Stern L; Kouvaros G, (ed.), Power Publications, Sydney

Book Chapters

Kouvaros G, 2020, 'As If It Were for the Last Time: Wim Wenders—Film and Photography', in Wim Wenders Making Films that Matter, pp. 77 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501356308.0009

Kouvaros G, 2019, ''I Don't Know What to Do with My Hands': John Cassavetes' The Killing of a Chinese Bookie'', in Kirshner J; Lewis J (ed.), When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, pp. 130 - 148, http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=5a20db09-3245-4377-849e-b4ae106db811%40pdc-v-sessmgr06&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=2089062&db=nlebk

Kouvaros G, 2010, '"Those Who Wait" The Misfits and Late Hollywood Style', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 149 - 181, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'A Measure of Time INTRODUCTION', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'Absorption and the Method The Iconography of Method Acting', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 31 - 54, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'Acting as Labor Picturing The Misfits', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 113 - 147, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'Being Private in Public Marilyn Monroe's Performance of Intimacy', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 81 - 111, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'Playing with Time The Magnum Photographs as Historical Record', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 183 - 213, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'The Star Brought Down to Earth The Actor and Postwar Photography', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 55 - 80, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kouvaros G, 2009, 'Images that Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz', in Fischer G (ed.), W.G. Sebald: Schreiben Ex Patria / Expatriate Writing., Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, pp. 389 - 412

Kouvaros G, 2008, ''We Do Not Die Twice": Realism and Cinema', in Donald J; Renov M (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Film Studies, Sage, London, pp. 376 - 390

Stern L; Kouvaros G, 1999, 'Descriptive Acts', in Kouvaros G; Stern L (ed.), Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 1 - 35

Kouvaros G, 1999, 'Improvisation and the Operatic: Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence', in Kouvaros G; Stern L (ed.), Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 49 - 71

Journal articles

Kouvaros G, 2025, '‘What awaits us’: the life-worlds of post-war migration', Continuum, 39, pp. 280 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2436885

Kouvaros G, 2025, 'On transience', Continuum, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2507036

Kouvaros G, 2023, 'The Signatures of a Time and Place in the World', Ergon: Greek American Arts and Letters, https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/essays/the-signatures-of-a-time-and-a-place-in-the-world

Kouvaros G, 2022, '“The Postman’s Coming:” La Morte Rouge (soliloquio) and the Limits of Essayistic Thinking', Comparative Cinema, 10, pp. 76 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.31009/cc.2022.v10.i18.05

Kouvaros G, 2021, 'The Keys to the House: John Conomos’ The Girl From the Sea', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/the-keys-to-the-house-john-conomos-the-girl-from-the-sea

Kouvaros G, 2020, '‘A poor and precious secret’: cinema’s remediation in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder', Textual Practice, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2020.1792969

Kouvaros G, 2020, 'El Sur (The South), or the Memory of Cinema', Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/movie/contents/movie_issue9_elsur.pdf

Kouvaros G, 2020, 'Pacific Park', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/pacific-park/

Kouvaros G, 2020, 'The Bouquet', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/the-bouquet/

Kouvaros G, 2019, 'The Other Life', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, 78, pp. 60 - 68, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=425545502411358;res=IELLCC

Kouvaros G, 2018, 'The Enigma of Arrival', Life Writing, 15, pp. 579 - 590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2016.1276792

Kouvaros G, 2017, ''It's Not Quite Right Yet': Realism and Affect in A Woman Under the Influence and A nos amours', Paragraph, 40, pp. 228 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2017.0227

Kouvaros G, 2017, 'Before Something and After Something Else: Film Studies in the Age of Media Studies', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2017/09/before-something-and-after-something-else-film-studies-in-the-age-of-media-studies/

Kouvaros G, 2016, 'Ithaka, or the Open Voyage: Jonas Mekas' Lost Lost Lost and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania', Screening the Past

Kouvaros G, 2016, 'The Old Greeks', Cultural Studies Review, 22, pp. 149 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v22i2.5063

Kouvaros G, 2015, 'Oi Kaymeni ('The Burnt Ones')', Southerly, 75, pp. 74 - 88

Kouvaros G, 2015, 'As If It Were For the Last Time: Wim Wenders—Film and Photography', New German Critique, 42, pp. 81 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2889272

Kouvaros G, 2013, 'A Trip to the Moon', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2013/06/a-trip-to-the-moon/

Kouvaros G, 2012, ''Time and How to Note it Down': The Lessons of Pull My Daisy', Screen, 53, pp. 1 - 17, http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/1.full

Kouvaros G, 2011, 'The Generation of the Photograph, or Those Left Behind', Southerly, 71, pp. 154 - 165, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=549891543195885;res=IELLCC

Kouvaros G, 2010, ''He's Not There': Robert Frank's Me and My Brother', Screening the Past

Kouvaros G, 2010, 'Our Place in the World', Screening the Past

Kouvaros G, 2009, 'Those Who Wait: The Misfits and Late Style', Screening the Past, 25, pp. n/a - n/a

Kouvaros G, 2007, 'Interview with Paul Schrader', Rouge Magazine, 11

Kouvaros G, 2005, 'Images That Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz', Textual Practice, 19, pp. 195 - 211

Kouvaros G, 2002, 'Affliction', Film Quarterly, 55(3), pp. 45 - 51

Kouvaros G, 2002, 'The Misfits: What Happened Around the Camera', Film Quarterly, 55, pp. 28 - 33

Kouvaros G, 2001, 'A strange sun: cinema and theatre in John Cassavetes` The killing of a Chinese bookie and Opening night', Screening the Past, 13, pp. 1 - 21

Kouvaros G, 2001, 'Nocturnal kinship', Screening the Past, 13, pp. 1 - 10

Kouvaros G, 1999, 'An Art of Proper Appearances', UTS Review, 5, pp. 142 - 154

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