Despoina-Betty Kaklamanidou is Research Fellow at the School of Law and Social Sciences at UEL. She has also been teaching Film History and Theory at the Film Studies Department at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece since 2005. She is the author of Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism: The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com (London: Routledge, 2013), the co-editor of The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film (USA: McFarland, 2010) and the author of two Greek books on film adaptation and the Hollywood romantic comedy. In 2011 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in New York.

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Dr. Kaklamanidou's fields of study include film and human rights, film as educational tool, adaptation theory, genre and gender, and contemporary Greek cinema.

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 Dr. Kaklamanidou is currently working on a monograph on the political dimension of Robert Redford’s directorial oeuvre, a co-edited collection on the film and television representation of the millennial generation. She is also conducting research on how film can be used as teaching tool for the dissemination of citizenship issues.

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Dr. Kaklamanidou is member of the editorial board of The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (http://jprstudies.org/), member of the Hellenic Semiotics Society (http://www.hellenic-semiotics.gr/), and Member of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS).

KEY WORDS:

film, human rights, politics, narrative, gender, genre