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Cinema of Crisis
Film and Contemporary Europe
Edited by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis
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Book Presentation:
Investigates contemporary European cinema’s response to the challenges posed to Europe by economic/political crises
• Offers the first book-length investigation of European cinema’s response to the economic crisis
• Provides a survey of cinemas that have not received much critical attention from scholarship. In other words, this is one of the few books on European cinema that features many essays on Eastern European films and filmmakers
• Explores a long view of the crisis that can offer a better understanding of questions of politics and representation in contemporary European Cinema
• Watch a video of Thomas Austin discussing Cinema of Crisis
Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across a continent in flux. This urgent and necessary collection brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers’ diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades. Covering topics such as the collapse of the eastern bloc; deindustrialisation; the 2008 crash and the eurozone debt crisis; austerity and neoliberalism, as well as ‘Fortress Europe’ and the ‘refugee crisis’, this book investigates a range of audiovisual forms, including documentaries, the work of arthouse auteurs, and videos posted on YouTube. It engages in highly topical debates in political and aesthetic spheres, and explores key interfaces between the two.
About the authors:
Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023, EUP) and Cinema of Crisis (2020, EUP).Angelos Koutsourakis is Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (2013) and the co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020), and The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015).
Press Reviews:
The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland.– Claudia Kotte, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021
The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland.– Claudia Kotte, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021
The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema’s thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring.– Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020
The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema’s thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring.– Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020
A timely contribution to important debates arising in Europe and contemporary film about intersectional forms of marginality and discrimination [...] this book is a welcome addition to the scholarship about the complexity of contemporary film.– Mariana Liz, Universidade de Lisboa, Studies in European Cinema
This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film’s unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety.– Anikó Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film’s unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety.– Anikó Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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