George Kouvaros

George Kouvaros is Professor of Film Studies in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW. He is the author of five books as well as numerous journal articles, book chapters and interviews on aspects of film, photography and visual culture. His most recent book is The Old Greeks: Photography, Cinema, Migration (UWA Publishing, 2018).

Works By George Kouvaros

The Keys to the House: John Conomos’ The Girl From the Sea
The work of homemaking in which the filmmaker is engaged is thus not only about the creation of a continuity between past and present. It is also about the future – how we remember the person that we will become.
30 June. 2021
The Bouquet
For those of us lucky enough to grow old with our parents, we enter into a particular type of complicity. We do not want anything from them. We do not want them to change or to show us something they haven’t already shown. It’s too late for that.
14 Sept. 2020
Pacific Park
How can we tell the story of places where families with limited means came and went and made a living of sorts, places that act as meeting points between the old and the new, the long established and the newly arrived, where each generation is giv...
11 May. 2020
Whatever Could Have Happened? John Hughes’ No One
Hughes asks us to consider the return of the past as an auditory event, as something heard rather than witnessed. The difference is crucial.
28 Aug. 2019

Works Featuring George Kouvaros

Still (and) Moving Images: The Old Greeks: Photography, Cinema, Migration
Beginning with his mother’s creased identity card from the era when Cyprus was colonised by the British Kouvaros links the great themes of twentieth-century migration to the affective structures provided by both photography and cinema that give a
9 Sept. 2019

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George Kouvaros

Works By George Kouvaros

The Keys to the House: John Conomos’ The Girl From the Sea

The Bouquet

Pacific Park

Whatever Could Have Happened? John Hughes’ No One

Works Featuring George Kouvaros

Still (and) Moving Images: The Old Greeks: Photography, Cinema, Migration