CLA388H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Elgin Marbles
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Reception of the classical world: never on sunday. When she starred in her first film stella (1955) under the direction of mihalis. Her real stardom came under the direction of her husband jules dassin and the film. Never on sunday (1960) 5 years later, when she was 40 years old. Elected to the greek parliament in 1977. Served as greece"s minister of culture from 1981 to 1990. Melina"s greatest dream as a politician was the return of the marbles of the parthenon, known as the elgin marbles, back to greece. Now they are still in the british museum. Pushing against the notion that modern greeks have lost touch of their cultural roots the true inheritors of democracy are western europeans. Hitchens 2009 in vanity fair on the return of the elgin marbles. To that essentially aesthetic objection the british establishment has made three replies.
