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European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Ingrid Lewis,Laura Canning
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030334369

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European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by Ingrid Lewis,Laura Canning Pdf

This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film. Importantly, this collection is the first of its kind to apply a transversal approach to European Cinema, bringing together the East and the West, while providing a broad picture of key trends, aesthetics, genres, national identities, and transnational concerns. Lewis and Canning’s collection effectively addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary European film, such as ecology, migration, industry, identity, disability, memory, auteurship, genre, small cinemas, and the national and international frameworks which underpin them. Combining accessible original research with a thorough grounding in recent histories and contexts, each chapter includes key definitions, reflective group questions, and a summative case study. Overall, this book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of recent European Cinema, making it an invaluable resource for lecturers and students across a variety of film-centred modules.

Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema

Author : Barbara Mennel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252050961

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Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema by Barbara Mennel Pdf

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism. More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera. Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe.

Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Gerd Bayer,Oleksandr Kobrynskyy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Collective memory and motion pictures
ISBN : 0231174233

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Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-first Century by Gerd Bayer,Oleksandr Kobrynskyy Pdf

Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices.

Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema

Author : James Harvey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319736679

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Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema by James Harvey Pdf

This book investigates screen representations of 21st century nationalism—arguably the most urgent and apparent phenomenon in the Western world today. The chapters explore recurrent thematic and stylistic features of 21st century western European cinema, and analyse the ways in which film responds to contemporary developments of mounting tensions and increasing hostilities to difference. The collection blends incisive sociological and historical engagement with close textual analysis of many types of screen media, including popular cinema, art-house productions, low-budget independent work, documentary and video installation. Identifying motifs of nationhood and indigeneity throughout, the contributors of this volume present important perspectives and a timely cultural response to the contemporary moment of nationalism.

Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century

Author : Cynthia Vich,Sarah Barrow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030525125

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Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century by Cynthia Vich,Sarah Barrow Pdf

This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation’s diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context. The insertion of post-conflict Peru within neoliberalism resulted in widespread commodification of all areas of life, significantly impacting cinema culture. Consequently, the principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.

Post-Crisis European Cinema

Author : György Kalmár
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030450359

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Post-Crisis European Cinema by György Kalmár Pdf

This book explores the cinematic representations of the pervasive socio-cultural change that the 21st century brought to Europe and the world. Discussing films such as I, Daniel Blake, Cold War and Jupiter’s Moon, it puts distinctively “post-crisis”, gendered representations in a complex, theoretically informed and socially committed interdisciplinary perspective that maps the newly emerging formations of masculinity at a time of rapid socio-economic transition. Kalmar argues that the series of crises that started with the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed some of our fundamental expectations about history, debunked many of our grand narratives, and thus changed the cultural logic of our (thoroughly globalized) civilization. The book focuses on the ways cinema reflects, interprets and shapes a rapidly changing world: the hot issues of the times, the new formations of identity, and the shifts in cinematic representation. This is an interdisciplinary research that is equally interested in what new the 21st century brought about, most specifically to Europe and to its white men, as in film and its responses to these socio-cultural changes.

Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film

Author : John Alexander Williams,Alexandra Hagen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538158999

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Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film by John Alexander Williams,Alexandra Hagen Pdf

This edited collection explores how contemporary western European film can reflect on and contribute to discourses of conflict and survival in the new century.

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood

Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231549455

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Twenty-First-Century Hollywood by Neil Archer Pdf

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings and industrial analysis, illustrating why these kinds of movies are favored in the contemporary climate by producers and audiences alike. Neil Archer critically explores the narrative and aesthetic strategies at work in Hollywood’s most high-profile films, from Harry Potter, to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, to The Lego Movie. Along the way, the book answers some often unexpected questions: Why is Hollywood nervous about flying saucers? Why might the cinematic auteur be Hollywood’s savior? And why are the most grown-up movies those made for children? As this study shows, like the films themselves, the answers to these questions are often complex and surprising.

East European Cinemas

Author : Anikó Imre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135872649

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East European Cinemas by Anikó Imre Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Euro-Visions

Author : Mariana Liz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628922998

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Euro-Visions by Mariana Liz Pdf

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of Europe emerges, is represented and constructed by contemporary European film. Adopting a broad and wide-ranging approach, Euro-Visions mixes political sources, historical documents and filmic texts and offers an integration of policy and economic contexts with textual analysis. Mariana Liz examines costume dramas, biopics and war films, mainstream co-productions and tales of 'Fortress Europe' by renowned auteurs, showing how films from different European nations depict and contribute to the formation of the idea of Europe. Case studies include Girl with a Pearl Earring, La Vie en Rose, Black Book, Good Bye Lenin!, Match Point and The Silence of Lorna.

The Europeanization of Cinema

Author : Randall Halle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252096334

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The Europeanization of Cinema by Randall Halle Pdf

In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of "interzones"--geographical and ideational spaces of transit, interaction, transformation, and contested diversity--as a mechanism for analyzing European cinema. He focuses especially on films about borders, borderlands, and cultural zones as he traces the development of interzones from the inception of central European cinema to the avant-garde films of today. Throughout, he shows how cinema both reflects and engenders interzones that explore the important questions of Europe's social order: imperialism and nation-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; "first contact" between former adversaries (such as East and West Germany) following World War II and the Cold War; and migration, neo-colonialism, and cultural imperialism in the twenty-first century. Ultimately, Halle argues that today's cinema both produces and reflects imaginative communities. He demonstrates how, rather than simply erasing boundaries, the European Union instead fosters a network of cultural interzones that encourage cinematic exploration of the new Europe's processes and limits of connectivity, tolerance, and cooperation.

Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Gerd Bayer,Oleksandr Kobrynskyy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850919

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Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by Gerd Bayer,Oleksandr Kobrynskyy Pdf

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices. Both established directors and a new generation of filmmakers have tackled the ethically difficult task of finding a visual language to represent the past that is also relatable to viewers. Both geographical and spatial principles of Holocaust memory are frequently addressed in original ways. Another development concentrates on perpetrator figures, adding questions related to guilt and memory. Covering such diverse topics, this volume brings together scholars from cultural studies, literary studies, and film studies. Their analyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.

European Cinema and Continental Philosophy

Author : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441162618

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European Cinema and Continental Philosophy by Thomas Elsaesser Pdf

This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy. By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Elsaesser is able to approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a global context. His combination of political and philosophical thinking will surely ground the debate in film philosophy for years to come.

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Mahir Şaul,Ralph A. Austen
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780821443507

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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century by Mahir Şaul,Ralph A. Austen Pdf

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These “Nollywood” films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a comparison of these two main African cinema modes. Contributors: Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Şaul, Jonathan Haynes, Onookome Okome, Birgit Meyer, Abdalla Uba Adamu, Matthias Krings, Vincent Bouchard, Laura Fair, Jane Bryce, Peter Rist, Stefan Sereda, Lindsey Green-Simms, and Cornelius Moore

Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

Author : Elizabeth Osborne,Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030332969

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Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema by Elizabeth Osborne,Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro Pdf

This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent filmic representations of the housemaid question the marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by making them the center of their narratives, their families, and society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker as an emergent subjectivity, a complex character who problematizes and contests the hierarchical power structures within the family dynamics and new socioeconomic orders found in contemporary Latin America. Readers will find a variety of representations across the continent as well as transnational commonalities of the cinematic figure and role of the housemaid, including the negotiation of a multilayered politics of affection in the framework of prevalent paternalism, and the complex and contradictory dynamic between private and public spaces, where domestic paid labor occupies a central role in maintaining gender, class, and ethnic inequalities.