The Europeanness of European Cinema

Identity, Meaning, Globalization

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Edited by Mary Harrod, Mariana Liz and Alissa Timoshkina

Type

Essays

Subject

Countries > Europe

Keywords

Europe, France

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

I.B.Tauris

Collection

International Library of the Moving Image

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 288 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78076-929-5

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Book Presentation:
From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d'Or-winning productions, European filmmaking is more prominent, world-wide, than ever before. This book identifies the distinctive character of European cinema, both in films and as a critical concept, asking: what place does European cinema have in an increasingly globalized world? Including in-depth analyses of production and reception contexts, as well as original readings of key European films from leading experts in the field, it re-negotiates traditional categories such as auteurism, art cinema and national cinemas. As the first publication to explore 'Europeanness' in cinema, this book refocuses and updates historically significant areas of study in relation to this term. Leading scholars in European cinema - including Thomas Elsaesser, Tim Bergfelder, Anne Jackel, Lucy Mazdon and Ginette Vincendeau - acknowledge the transnational character of European filmmaking whilst also exploring the oppositions between European and Hollywood filmmaking, considering the value of the 'European' label in the circulation of films within and beyond the continent.
The Europeanness of European Cinema makes a lively, timely intervention in the fields of European and transnational film studies.

About the authors:
Mariana Liz is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities and Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, both at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the author of Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema (2016) and co-editor of Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (2020) and The Europeanness of European Cinema: Identity, Meaning, Globalization (2015).

Press Reviews:
"This is a well-focused, excellently structured collection… an enlivening, energising intervention in the study of European film."
(Studies in Eastern European Cinema)

See the publisher website: I.B.Tauris