The European Cinema Reader

The European Cinema Reader

Author: Catherine Fowler

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780415240918

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This comprehensive introduction to national cinemas in Europe brings together classic writings by key filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel and John Grierson, and critics from Andre Bazin to Peter Wollen.


European Cinema

European Cinema

Author: Thomas Elsaesser

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 9053565949

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'European Cinema in Crisis' examines the conflicting terminologies that have dominated the discussion of the future of European film-making. It takes a fresh look at the ideological agendas, from 'avante-garde cinema' to the high/low culture debate and the fate of popular European cinema.


European Cinema after the Wall

European Cinema after the Wall

Author: Leen Engelen Leen Engelen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1442229608

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union. In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration. Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.


European Cinema in Motion

European Cinema in Motion

Author: D. Berghahn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 023029507X

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This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion of a highly productive creative sector and documents the spectrum of this area of exploration in European, transnational and World Cinema studies.


Revisiting Space

Revisiting Space

Author: Wendy Ellen Everett

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9783039102648

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How does film construct space, and what is the relationship between space and time in film? These and other questions are explored in this collection of wide-ranging, challenging essays that re-evaluate and extend recent theoretical debate in relation to the regional and national cinemas of Europe.


Literature and Film from East Europe’s Forgotten "Second World"

Literature and Film from East Europe’s Forgotten

Author: Gordana P. Crnkovic

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1501370677

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Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces of literature and cinema from this largely forgotten “Second World,” as well as by the authors formed in it and working in its aftermath, surprise and delight with their contemporary resonance. This book introduces and illuminates a number of these works. It explores how their aesthetic ingenuity discovers ways of engaging existential and universal predicaments, such as how one may survive in the world of victimizations, or imagine a good city, or broach the human boundaries to live as a plant. Like true classics of world art, these novels, stories, and films-to rephrase Bohumil Hrabal-keep “telling us things about ourselves we don't know.” In lively and jargon-free prose, Gordana P. Crnkovic builds on her rich teaching experience to create paths to these works and reveal how they changed lives.


The Silent Cinema Reader

The Silent Cinema Reader

Author: Lee Grieveson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780415252843

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The Silent Cinema Reader brings together key writings on cinema from the beginnings of film in 1894 to the advent of sound in 1927, addressing the development of film production and exhibition technologies, methods of distribution, film form, and film culture during this critical period on film history. Thematic sections address: film projection and variety shows; storytelling and the Nickelodeon; cinema and reform; feature films and cinema programs; classical Hollywood cinema and European national cinemas. Each section is introduced by the editors, and contains suggestions for further readings and film viewings.


Cinema of the Other Europe

Cinema of the Other Europe

Author: Dina Iordanova

Publisher: Wallflower Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781903364611

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Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film is a comprehensive study of the cinematic traditions of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1945 to the present day, exploring the major schools of filmmaking and the main stages of development across the region during the period of state socialism up until the end of the Cold War, as well as more recent transformations post-1989. In encouraging a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of European cinema, much needed for the new unified Europe `enlarged' towards its Eastern periphery, this book maps out the interactions, key concerns, thematic spheres and stylistic particularities that make the cinema of East Central Europe a vital part of European film tradition. Cinema of the Other Europe is thus a timely appraisal of Film Studies debates ranging from the representation of history and memory, the reassessment of political content, ethics and society, the rehabilitation of popular cinema, and the rethinking of national and regional cinemas in the context of globalisation.


Popular European Cinema

Popular European Cinema

Author: Richard Dyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 113508503X

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Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and ethnic identities that complicate th equestoin of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Europe. THrough their individual studies, the contribuitots ehr oven up a new area of study, using the medium of film to fucus a wider discussion of popular European culture.


The New European Cinema

The New European Cinema

Author: Rosalind Galt

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780231137171

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Rosalind Galt offers innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s, including Emir Kusturica's 'Underground', Lars Von Trier's 'Zentropa', and Giuseppe Tornatore's 'Cinema Paradiso'.