GILL ALLWOOD Senior Lecturer in French, Nottingham Trent UniversitySUSAN BASSNETT Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick and Professor in the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural StudiesANNA BULL Professor in Italian Studies, University of BathDAVID COULBY Dean of Faculty of Education and Human Sciences and Professor of Education Sciences, Bath Spa University CollegePETER HUMPHREYS Reader in Government at Manchester University and Fellow of the European Institute for the MediaROSALIND MARSH Professor of Russian Studies, Bath UniversityPAMELA MOORES Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the School of Languages and European Studies, Aston UniversityMURRAY PRATT Teaches in the Department of French Studies at Warwick UniversityKEITH READER Professor of French, University of NewcastleGRAHAM ROBERTS Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of SurreyALISON SMITH Lecturer in French, Keele UniversityCHRIS WARNE Lecturer in French Studies, Keele UniversitySTEPHEN WEBBER Lecturer in International Security at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Holmes, E.Kolinsky, M.Crook & J.Andrew PART I: FILM Belgian Film Comedy and National Identity; K.Reader Double Lives: Europe and Identity in the Later Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski; G.Roberts Hitmen, Hate and Grosse Fatigue : The Search for the French Blockbuster; A.Smith PART II: MEDIA ISSUES Regulation for Media Pluralism: Issues in Ownership and Competition; P.Humphreys The European 'Goal' and the Popular Press; P.Moores PART III: GENDER AND IDENTITY Representations of Feminism in France: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and Post-Feminism; G.Allwood Reflections on Gender Issues in Contemporary Europe; S.Bassnett AIDS Prevention, Gay Identity and National Homophobia in France; M.Pratt PART IV: WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN SOCIETIES Class, Gender and Voting in Italy; A.Bull Women, Work and Family in Post-Communist Germany; E.Kolinsky Women in Russia and the Former USSR: Politics, Society and Culture; R.Marsh PART V: YOUTH AND EDUCATION Warfare by Other Means: Unity and Fracture in European Education; D.Coulby Transitional Affinities in the European Context: The Case of Contemporary French Youth Culture; C.Warne Russia's Identity Crisis: Its Effect on the Schools and the Young; S.Webber Index