Betty Kaklamanidou

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