Euro-Visions

Mariana Liz completed a PhD at King’s College London in 2012. She has taught at King’s and Queen Mary, University of London, and at the University of Leeds, UK (2013-2016). She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016) and co-editor of The Europeanness of European Cinema (2015). Her edited collection Global Portuguese Cinema is in production. She has published on contemporary European cinema and Portuguese film in Studies in European Cinema and the Journal of Romance Studies, among others. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, in Portugal, where she conducts research on European cities, cinema and branding.

Euro-Visions constitutes an important overview of the EU’s engagement in the transnational distribution of European film since its formation. It is especially useful for readers wanting to explore the role of European policy-making in the constitution of a transnational idea of Europe.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Idea of EuropeChapter 2: Europe: History of an IdeaChapter 3: The EU’s definition of EuropeThe European Film Industry and the MEDIA ProgrammeChapter 4: The European Film IndustryChapter 5: The MEDIA ProgrammeHistory and Memory in Contemporary European CinemaChapter 6: Celebrating Europe’s HeritageChapter 7: Remembering the WarChapter 8: Revolution, Politics and Social Change in Post-war EuropeThis is EuropeChapter 9: European Cities and Filmic Representations of Urban SpaceChapter 10: Urban Dystopias and ‘State-of-the-Nation’ FilmsConclusion: The Idea of Europe in Contemporary Cinema