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BETTY KAKLAMANIDOU

Professor in Film and Television

Betty Kaklamanidou is a Fulbright scholar, Professor in Film & TV History & Theory, and Chair of the Anglophone MA Program “Film & Television Studies” (2019-2024) at the School of Film, Aristotle University, Greece. Her monographs include, among others, Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy? (2018), The ‘Disguised’ Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood (2016), and Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism (2013). Betty is also the editor of New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation (2020) and co-editor of several collections, such as Contemporary European Cinema (2018), Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television (2016), and The 21st Century Superhero (2010). Betty’s articles have appeared in Television & New Media, Literature/Film Quarterly, Flow, Celebrity Studies, Filmicon, and The Journal of Popular Romance Studies. She is currently heading the Research Project titled “Plyta’s Uknown Cinema” (PUC), which is implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I call “3rd Call for H.F.R.I.’s Research Projects to Support Faculty Members & Researchers” (H.F.R.I. Project Number: 24781).