Thomas Elsaesser (1943-2019) was Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

• Table of Contents - 6 Preface - 10 Introduction: European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility? - 14 National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions - 34 European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood - 36 ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries - 58 Film Festival Networks: the New Topographies of Cinema in Europe - 83 Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990s - 109 Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography - 132 Ingmar Bergman – Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco - 134 Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found - 156 Around Painting and the “End of Cinema”: A Propos Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse - 166 Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light - 179 The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken - 194 Television and the Author’s Cinema: ZDF’s Das Kleine Fernsehspiel - 213 Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980s - 220 Europe-Hollywood-Europe - 232 Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles - 234 Raoul Ruiz’s Hypothèse du Tableau Volé - 252 Images for Sale: The “New” British Cinema - 256 “If You Want a Life”: The Marathon Man - 271 British Television in the 1980s Through The Looking Glass - 279 German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror - 300 Central Europe Looking West - 320 Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev’s The Switchboard Operator - 322 Defining DEFA’s Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf - 326 Under Western Eyes: What Does ¿i¿ek Want? - 343 Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory’s No Man’s Land - 357 Europe Haunted by History and Empire - 372 Is History an Old Movie? - 374 Edgar Reitz’ Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood - 385 Discourse and History: One Man’s War – An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky - 396 Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola’s That Night in Varennes - 408 Joseph Losey’s The Go-Between - 413 Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen - 421 Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport - 432 Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death - 434 Andy Engel’s Melancholia - 437 On the High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky’s Dutch Adventure - 441 Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra - 445 Ruy Guerra’s Erendira - 462 Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema Between Hollywood and Art Cinema - 465 Conclusion - 484 European Cinema as World Cinema: A New Beginning? - 486 European Cinema: A Brief Bibliography - 516 List of Sources and Places of First Publication - 532 Index of Names - 536 Index of Film Titles / Subjects - 550