From Moscow to Madrid European Cities, Postmodern Cinema

by Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781860648519
• ISBN10: 1860648517
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema, and shows how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book engages with diverse films, including "Luna Park", "Run, Lola, Run", "Trainspotting", "Wonderland", and many more. It tackles the issues about postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities over the last two decades under the effects of political change, from the postcommunist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London.

Author Biography

Ewa Mazierska is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Laura Rascaroli is Toyota Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the National University of Ireland, Cork.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
General Editor's Introduction	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
From the USA to Europe: Development of a New City	15	(10)
Part One: Old Europe	25	(66)
Old Europe's Cities: Between Tradition and Transition	27	(2)
Stratified Madrid: Layers of Realism and Artifice in Almodovar's Cinema	29	(22)
A Present and a True City? Naples in Mario Martone's Cinema	51	(22)
Marseilles: Intersection, Fragment, Ruin	73	(18)
Part Two: Postcommunist Europe	91	(70)
Cities and Cinemas after Socialism	93	(2)
Any Town? Warsaw in Girl Guide and Killer by Juliusz Machulski	95	(20)
Berlin, a Coreless City	115	(22)
Cleansing the City and the Country: Moscow in the Films of Pavel Lungin	137	(24)
Part Three: Case Study: Great Britain	161	(74)
British Cities since the 1980s and Their Cinematic Representation	163	(3)
London: Fragments of a Metropolis	166	(28)
Escape from a Celtic City	194	(20)
The Eternal Postmodernity of Blackpool	214	(21)
Conclusion	235	(6)
Notes	241	(3)
Bibliography	244	(7)
Index	251