The Politics of Contemporary European Cinema

The Politics of Contemporary European Cinema
Title The Politics of Contemporary European Cinema PDF eBook
Author Mike Wayne
Publisher Intellect Books
Total Pages 160
Release 2002
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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This title raises issues that question European culture and the nature of national cinema, including: the cultural relationship with Hollywood, debates over cultural plurality and diversity; and postcolonial travels and the hybridization of the national formation.

Making Worlds

Making Worlds
Title Making Worlds PDF eBook
Author Claudia Breger
Publisher Columbia University Press
Total Pages 474
Release 2020-04-14
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231550693

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The twenty-first century has witnessed a resurgence of economic inequality, racial exclusion, and political hatred, causing questions of collective identity and belonging to assume new urgency. In Making Worlds, Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge these political trends. Breger offers nuanced readings of major contemporary films such as Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and Aki Kaurismäki’s refugee trilogy, as well as works by Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Through a new model of cinematic worldmaking, Breger examines the ways in which these works produce unexpected and destabilizing affects that invite viewers to imagine new connections among individuals or groups. These films and their depictions of refugees, immigrants, and communities do not simply counter dominant political imaginaries of hate and fear with calls for empathy or solidarity. Instead, they produce layered sensibilities that offer the potential for greater openness to others’ present, past, and future claims. Drawing on the work of Latour, Deleuze, and Rancière, Breger engages questions of genre and realism along with the legacies of cinematic modernism. Offering a rich account of contemporary film, Making Worlds theorizes the cinematic creation of imaginative spaces in order to find new ways of responding to political hatred.

Contemporary European Cinema

Contemporary European Cinema
Title Contemporary European Cinema PDF eBook
Author Betty Kaklamanidou
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 198
Release 2018-12-17
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351347063

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This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and humanitarian crisis. With the recession having become a popular theme of economic, demographic, and sociological research in recent years, this volume examines representations of the crisis and its attendant market instability and mistrust of neoliberal political systems in film. It thus sheds light on the mediation, reimagination, and reformulation of recent history in the depiction of personal, cultural, and political memories, and raises new questions about crisis narratives in European film, asking whether the theoretical notion of "national" cinema is less or more powerful during moments of sociopolitical turbulence, and investigating the kinds of cultural representations and themes that characterize the narratives of European documentary and fictional films from both small and large national markets.

European Cinema in Motion

European Cinema in Motion
Title European Cinema in Motion PDF eBook
Author D. Berghahn
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 336
Release 2010-08-10
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 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.

Religion in Contemporary European Cinema

Religion in Contemporary European Cinema
Title Religion in Contemporary European Cinema PDF eBook
Author Costica Bradatan
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 233
Release 2014-02-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 1317860187

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The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fascinating to study, and this is what Religion in Contemporary European Cinema does. The book explores the mutual influences, structural analogies, shared dilemmas, as well as the historical roots of such a "post-secular constellation" as seen through the lens of European cinema. Bringing together scholars from film theory and political science, ethics and philosophy of religion, philosophy of film and theology, this volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience after the death of the death of God.

Screening Strangers

Screening Strangers
Title Screening Strangers PDF eBook
Author Yosefa Loshitzky
Publisher Indiana University Press
Total Pages 228
Release 2010-03-08
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 025322182X

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Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on terror, the London Underground bombings, and the riots in Paris's banlieues. Opening a cinematic window onto this struggle, Loshitzky determines patterns in the representation and negotiation of European identity in several European films from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, and Michael Winterbottom's In This World, Code 46, and The Road to Guantanamo.

Contemporary European Cinema

Contemporary European Cinema
Title Contemporary European Cinema PDF eBook
Author Mary P. Wood
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages 224
Release 2007-07-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780340761366

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European cinema flourishes. European blockbusters challenge Hollywood's domination of the industry and prize-winning art-house productions influence directors in American and beyond. Whether attempting to engage with the past, explore the present or predict the future, today's European films display a verve and originality that challenges the older stereotypes. Contemporary European Cinema presents an overview of the dynamics of twenty-first century European cinema, exploring the artistic, commercial and production contexts of European cinema in order to identify the areas in which the continent's filmmakers express their national concerns and identities. Taking a thematic approach the volume draws on a wide range of case studies from different countries to reflect the breadth of contemporary European cinema.