From Media Idiom to Political Argument: Uses of "Lifestyle" in the Early Years of the Greek Crisis, 2009–2015

Zestanakis, Panagiotis

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“…Singer Sakis Rouvas, chef, media persona, and entrepreneur Sotiris Kontizas, entrepreneur Dimitris Yiannakopoulos, basketball player Vassilis Spanoulis, and media persona Petros Kostopoulos (born in 1972, 1983, 1974, 1982, and 1954 respectively) had 911,000, 356,000, 242,000, 126,000, and 82,000 followers respectively in late 2020. These celebrities do not have sympathizers only; for example, in the past, the media have castigated Kostopoulos’s attitude (Zestanakis, 2020a). The media’s negative critiques, however, do not characterize these celebrities’ Instagram audiences—therefore, they lie beyond the scope of this study.…”

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“…Rebellious masculinities in which men were seducers more than husbands emerged to threaten the norms that were central to the breadwinner identity (Holt & Thompson, 2004). Lifestyle media promoted conspicuous consumption and advocated bachelorhood as a marker of successful masculinity, which appealed to young urban men without drastically challenging the creation of family as a purpose in life (Zestanakis, 2020a). The economic potential of Greeks rose from 60 to 78% of the European average between 2000 and 2008 (Liakos, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“Affluent and Tender Online”: Instagramming Celebrity, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Contemporary Greece

Zestanakis

2022

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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This article explores the online construction of masculinity and fatherhood in contemporary Greece. Through a digital observation of five celebrities’ Instagram activities that identified with the image of family man and affectionate father, the article argues that self-representations of affluent and involved masculinity and fatherhood represent a popular media trend. The article analyzes such self-representations as the outcome of historical transformations in gender and family politics, economy, and media that go back to the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. It also argues that the acceptance of such imagery by wide audiences demonstrates the persistence of the male archetype of breadwinner, the value of the family, and the nostalgic survival of elements of earlier prosperous consumer aesthetics throughout the Greek economic crisis of the 2010s.

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“Affluent and Tender Online”: Instagramming Celebrity, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Contemporary Greece

Zestanakis

2022

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television

Aitaki

2020

Journal of Greek Media &Amp; Culture

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This article draws from interviews with creators of television fiction (directors and screenwriters) with professional experience in Greek private television and examines how and why fiction programmes are produced in a commercial context. By focusing on the first decade of private television in Greece, an era popularly remembered as the ‘golden age of Greek television’, this study makes use of accounts from ‘exclusive informants’ in order to complicate facile assumptions about the relationship between commercialization, ideology and entertainment. As such, this article aspires to update the (limited) scholarship on Greek television production culture and to contribute to the recent research focusing specifically on private television in Greece.

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From Media Idiom to Political Argument: Uses of "Lifestyle" in the Early Years of the Greek Crisis, 2009–2015

Cited by 2 publications

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“Affluent and Tender Online”: Instagramming Celebrity, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Contemporary Greece

“Affluent and Tender Online”: Instagramming Celebrity, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Contemporary Greece

Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television

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