Screen LibraryThe Routledge companion to European cinema /
"This Companion's guiding vision of Europe is that of a messy place or idea that emerges from multiple images from multiple perspectives and multiple positions. To adopt Italo Calvino's phrase, European cinema is the product of a 'collection of voices' coming together as a &...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This Companion's guiding vision of Europe is that of a messy place or idea that emerges from multiple images from multiple perspectives and multiple positions. To adopt Italo Calvino's phrase, European cinema is the product of a 'collection of voices' coming together as a 'multiple discovery' of various Europes and cinemas. Europe is imprecisely circumscribed, in a permanent state of transition, transformation and contestation, deployed in the service of varied interests, in shifting contexts of power, never self-same, nor reducible to something fixed, legible, or knowable. Film scholarship in and/or about Europe published in English has paid far greater attention to some issues than others. French, Italian and German cinema have been centred as Europe's core cinemas. This book is not intended to make up for this historic bias in one swoop. It is offered instead as a way of engaging with European cinema that attends to questions of European colonial, racialized and gendered power, seeks to decentre Europe itself (not merely its putative centres) and interrogate Europe's various conceptualizations from a variety of viewpoints. This Companion embraces messiness by refusing to impose any other prior interpretation on Europe or its cinema. This book asks - rather than prescribes - what European cinema tells us about Europe. This latter is understood with an open mind as the broad, complex and heterogeneous community/ies produced in and by European films. This large and flexible label takes in Kurdish, Hollywood and Singapore cinema as comfortably as the cinema of Poland, Spanish colonial films or the European gangster genre. Individual films (e.g., Vincent Deutre's Orlando Ferito, 2013), film movements (e.g., Neo-Queer Cinema), filmmakers (e.g., Fred Zinnemann), stars (e.g., Omar Sharif), scholarship (e.g., Hungarian film historiography), representations and identities (e.g., German queer of colour cinema), audiences (e.g., Bulgarian viewers of Stephan Komandarev's f |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 466 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780367461850 0367461854 9781032136714 1032136715 |
| Index Number: | PN1993 |
| CLC: | J909.5 |
| Call Number: | J909.5/R869 |
| Contents: | Post-communist nostalgia in new Bulgarian cinema as a social critique : mediated post-communist nostalgia / Antonina Anisimovich -- Slow slippy : still shite being Scottish? T2 : Trainspotting and the 'Scottish European' / Kyle Barrett -- Beauty and historical understanding in Suspiria and Cold War / Louis Bayman -- 'Europe was built on blood' : Christian Petzold as a European filmmaker / Cordula Bo?cking -- Europe wounded? Politics of hope and resistance in Vincent Dieutre's Orlando Ferito (2013) / Tom Cuthbertson -- Lilting and the entangled temporalities of Europe(an cinema) / MaoHui Deng -- New ways of looking : the case of Maren Ade, Valeska Grisebach and Ma?gorzata Szumowska / Owen Evans -- The ebbs and flows of girlhood experience across European cinema / Fiona Handyside and Danielle Hipkins -- 'Dream on princess' : cultural value, gender politics, and the Hungarian film canon through the documentary Pretty girls / Julia Havas -- European ecology-documentaries as performative exchange / Susan Hayward -- Following the Fla?neur Hulot in Playtime : soundscape of the new Paris / Seda O?z -- A?gata's (filmmaking) girlfriends : the new wave of women directors in Catalonia / Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera -- The Bourne multiplicity : quantum Europeanness in the Bourne films (2002-16) / Rob Stone -- Noisy presences in contemporary European cinema : Paris est une fe?te : un film en 18 vagues / Emilija Talijan -- Gay male sex, carnal knowledge and realism in contemporary French cinema / Connor Winterton -- Eden is West, Europe as a magic trick / Cecilia Zoppelletto -- Omar Sharif : a European Middle Eastern star / Samar Abdel-Rahman -- Weakened nationalism and thickened time : interrogating the position of Kurdish cinema within European cinema discussions / O?zgu?r C?ic?ek -- Why small European film industries remake each other's successes : the case of the Low Countries / Eduard Cuelenaere, Stijn Joye & Gertjan Willems -- European collaboration after the Second |