European identity in cinema / edited by Wendy Everett.
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TextPublication details: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 119 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 1841509167
- 9781841509167
- 791.4 EVE
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 791.4 EVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100439687 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films, directors, and national cinemas, this volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to current film debate.
While the book's critical essays offer keen insight into the complex identities of European cinema, its combination of breadth and detail, and its interdisciplinary focus and background ensure its wider relevance to anyone interested in questions of contemporary culture and European affairs in general. Its stylistic clarity and freedom from jargon make it readable and accessible. The essays have been written by respected academics working in a number of disciplines including Film and Media Studies, Modern Languages, and Cultural Studies.
Topics include questions of memory and identity; filmic autobiography and first-person narration; cultural identity; peripheral voices; popular film and political film. Individual directors, and different national cinemas, including those of France, Germany, Northern Ireland, Russia, Scotland and Spain, are viewed in a wider pan- European context.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119).
Introduction: European film and the quest for identity / Wendy Everett -- Re-framing the fingerprints : a short survey of European film / Wendy Everett -- Louis Malle : a European outsider in the American mainstream / Peter Hawkins -- Les visiteurs : a popular form of cinema for Europe? / Anne Jackel -- Wenders\' Paris, Texas and the \'European way of seeing\' / Stan Jones -- Identity and the past in recent Russian cinema / David Gillespie -- The critique of reification : a subversive current within the cinema of contemporary Spain / Dominic Keown -- Current problems in the study of European cinema and the role of questions on cultural identity / Ian Aitkin -- Film and Northern Ireland : beyond \'the troubles\'? -- Peripheral visions : film-making in Scotland / Duncan Petrie -- Timetravel and European film / Wendy Everett.
The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films, directors, and national cinemas, this volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to current film debate..
While the book\'s critical essays offer keen insight into the complex identities of European cinema, its combination of breadth and detail, and its interdisciplinary focus and background ensure its wider relevance to anyone interested in questions of contemporary culture and European affairs in general. Its stylistic clarity and freedom from jargon make it readable and accessible.--BOOK JACKET.