European Cinema

What do we mean by ‘Art Cinema’? How can ‘Art Cinema’ be defined as a genre, and how does this term relate to the concepts of ‘art films’ and ‘art-house films’? _x005F_x000D_ European Art Cinema examines the history and social and cultural context of ‘art cinema’ as a genre that took shape in variou..

This book examines the way in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in cu..

In German Cinema – Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and..

This book focuses on the analysis of documentaries and fiction films representing migrants in Spain in the first decade of the twenty-first century...

This book examines the historical and contemporary tensions around mobility and identity in Europe in relation to experimental moving image practices in contemporary art and cinema...

This book examines the historical and contemporary tensions around mobility and identity in Europe in relation to experimental moving image practices in contemporary art and cinema...

This book provides an overview of LGBTQ representation and trends throughout cinematic history. It examines specific films from the spectrum of ‘low culture’ to ‘high culture’ to demonstrate how LGBTQ film can serve as a political tool to create visibility and acceptance. It was originally published..

Focusing on films in the contemporary Spanish context that in some way reflect back on themselves and the processes of their own production, that purposefully blur the distinction between reality and fiction, or that draw attention to the various modes of cinematic exhibition and reception, Amago pr..

Focusing on films in the contemporary Spanish context that in some way reflect back on themselves and the processes of their own production, that purposefully blur the distinction between reality and fiction, or that draw attention to the various modes of cinematic exhibition and reception, Amago pr..

This study considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic, re-examining the director's immediate postwar works in relation to the contemporary discussion on Italian national identity...

Contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic reactions to this migration. Confronting this trend, European cinema has developed and disseminated new transcultural and postcolonial alternatives that might he..

Contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic reactions to this migration. Confronting this trend, European cinema has developed and disseminated new transcultural and postcolonial alternatives that might he..