Euro-Visions Europe in Contemporary Cinema

by Liz, Mariana

• ISBN13: 9781628923018
• ISBN10: 1628923016
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-09-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of Europe emerges, is represented and constructed by contemporary European film.

Adopting a broad and wide-ranging approach, Euro-Visions mixes political sources, historical documents and filmic texts and offers an integration of policy and economic contexts with textual analysis. Mariana Liz examines costume dramas, biopics and war films, mainstream co-productions and tales of 'Fortress Europe' by renowned auteurs, showing how films from different European nations depict and contribute to the formation of the idea of Europe. Case studies include Girl with a Pearl Earring, La Vie en Rose, Black Book, Good Bye Lenin!, Match Point and The Silence of Lorna.

Author Biography

Mariana Liz is Lecturer in Film Studies in the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously taught at King’s and at Queen Mary University of London, UK, between 2009 and 2013. She's co-editor of the forthcoming The Europeanness of European Cinema (2014).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Idea of Europe
Chapter 2: Europe: History of an Idea
Chapter 3: The EU’s definition of Europe
The European Film Industry and the MEDIA Programme
Chapter 4: The European Film Industry
Chapter 5: The MEDIA Programme
History and Memory in Contemporary European Cinema
Chapter 6: Celebrating Europe’s Heritage
Chapter 7: Remembering the War
Chapter 8: Revolution, Politics and Social Change in Post-war Europe
This is Europe
Chapter 9: European Cities and Filmic Representations of Urban Space
Chapter 10: Urban Dystopias and ‘State-of-the-Nation’ Films
Conclusion: The Idea of Europe in Contemporary Cinema