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 films), production practices (e.g., Moroccan film funding), genres (e.g., the Giallo) and much else are analysed in their context(s) so as to construct an image of Europe as it emerges from Europe's film corpus"-- |
| 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 Böcking -- 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 Małgorzata 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 Flâneur Hulot in Playtime : soundscape of the new Paris / Seda Öz -- Ágata'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 fête : 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 / Özgür Çiçek -- 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 World War : a tale of five cities (M. Tully, R. Marcellini, W. Staudte, G. von Cziffra, E.E. Reinert, 1948-1951) / Hanja Dämon -- A film 'highly offensive to our nation' : Stanley Kubrick's Paths of glory (1957), censorship, and militaristic representations of post-war Europe / James Fenwick -- Europe comes to Hollywood : the silent era, 1912-1927 / Agata Frymus -- The non-professional actor in European cinema / Miguel Gaggiotti -- The (cultural) politics of international co-production : Morocco and Europe / Will Higbee -- British comedy in foreign light -- looking at the trope of British comedy through the lens of émigré filmmakers / Anna Mártonfi -- Corporate consolidation, artistic conservatism and the persistence of Hollywood : the European film industry, 2006-2020 / Christopher Meir -- 'Boyish' women and female soldiers : British gender disguise comedies between the world wars / Chris O'Rourke -- Fred Zinnemann : a Hollywood director who never leaves Europe / John White -- Framing fundamentalism in contemporary European film / Kaya Davies Hayon -- Gangster film reloaded : European values and the criminal specter of late modernity / Giuseppe Fidotta -- Films at the intersection of Europe, the Balkans, and transgender visibility : a sketch map / Alex Forbes -- Two-speed economic systems and bipolarity in the European Union : frontier spaces in Valeska Grisebach's Western / Luis Freijo -- Film topography and national belonging : Hungarian Jewishness and The high mountains / Gábor Gergely -- Identity and belonging in the bordered spaces of Gatlif's Indignados (2012) and Geronimo (2014) / Tamsin Graves -- Accented silences : the aesthetics of displacement in diasporic post-Yugoslav cinema / Igor Krstić -- Resisting the traps of hegemony : variation in contemporary German queer of color cinema / Priscilla Layne and Ervin Malakaj -- Lisbon on film 1980-2020 : locating Europe / Mariana Liz -- 'We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other' : the little person, the state, and nationhood in contemporary Russian film / Adelaide McGinity-Peebles -- Family, memories and borders -- Europe in the films of Stephan Komandarev / Maya Nedyalkova -- Neoliberal authorship : auteur theory and European art cinema in 2021 -- the example of Paweł Pawlikowski / Joanna Rydzewska -- Queer bodies and the death drive : gender and sexuality in Italian Giallo / Daniel Sheppard and Giuseppe Previtali -- Political discourse and rhetoric : challenging 21st century populism in Chez nous/This is our land (Lucas Belvaux, 2017) / Jamie Nicholas Steele -- Recovering memory, reasserting Europeanness. Modern convivencia and hispanotropicalism in Palm trees in the snow (2015) and Neckan (2015) / Marta F. Suarez. |