Author Betty Kaklamanidou

Betty Kaklamanidou

Betty Kaklamanidou is Professor in Film & TV History & Theory and Vice Chair of the School of Film, Aristotle University, Greece. A Fulbright scholar, she also chaired the Anglophone MA Program “Film & Television Studies” (2019-2024). She is currently heading the three-year Research Project titled “Plyta’s Unknown Cinema” (2025-2028), in the framework of H.F.R.I. 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).

History’s Gender Bias: The Case of Maria Plyta, the First Greek Female Director

Betty Kaklamanidou

November 2025

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Maria Plyta is the first Greek female director. She helmed her first film in 1950 and directed her swan song in 1970. She worked within the commercial film industry and the most popular production companies; sh...