European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030334352,9783030334369,303033435X,3030334368

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• ISBN-10: 3030334368
• ISBN-13: 9783030334369
• Author: Ingrid Lewis, ‎Laura Canning

This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film. Importantly, this collection is the first of its kind to apply a transversal approach to European Cinema, bringing together the East and the West, while providing a broad picture of key trends, aesthetics, genres, national identities, and transnational concerns. Lewis and Canning’s collection effectively addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary European film, such as ecology, migration, industry, identity, disability, memory, auteurship, genre, small cinemas, and the national and international frameworks which underpin them. Combining accessible original research with a thorough grounding in recent histories and contexts, each chapter includes key definitions, reflective group questions, and a summative case study. Overall, this book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of recent European Cinema, making it an invaluable resource for lecturers and students across a variety of film-centred modules.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Identity of European Cinema

Part I. Discourses

2. Documenting Difference: Migration and Identity in European Documentaries

3. Scotland’s Onscreen Identities: Otherness and Hybridity in Scottish Cinema

4. Questioning the ‘Normality Drama’: The Representation of Disability in Contemporary European Films

5. Ecocritical Perspectives on Nordic Cinema: From Nature Appreciation to Social Conformism

6. The Trauma of (Post)Memory: Women’s Memories in Holocaust Cinema

7. An Ordinary Warrior and His Inevitable Defeat: Representation in Post-Yugoslav Cinema

Part II. Directions

8. The New/Old Patriarchal Auteurism: Manoel de Oliveira, the Male Gaze and Women’s Representation

9. The Latest European New Wave: Cinematic Realism and Everyday Aesthetics in Romanian Cinema

10. Between Transnational and Local in European Cinema: Regional Resemblances in Hungarian and Romanian Films

11. Crossing Borders: Investigating the International Appeal of European Films

12. Technology, Decentralisation and the Periphery of European Filmmaking: Greece and Scandinavia in Focus

13. Brooklyn and the Other Side of the Ocean: The International and Transnational in Irish Cinema

Part III. Genres

14. On the Eve of the Journey: The New European Road Movie

15. German Film Comedy in the ‘Berlin Republic’: Wildly Successful and a Lot Funnier than You Think

16. On the Ambiguous Charm of Film Noir: Elle and the New Type of Woman

17. Dystopia Redux: Science Fiction Cinema and Biopolitics

18. Spanish Horror Film: Genre, Television and a New Model of Production

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