New Studies in European Cinema – serie
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Mapping Cinematic Norths
International Interpretations in Film and Television
Av Jonathan Rayner, Julia Dobson
Häftad, 2016
915 kr
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Mapping Cinematic Norths presents an international range of research and enquiry into the significance, representation and manipulation of depictions of the ‘North’ in cinema and television. Northern landscapes, soundscapes, characters and narratives are defined and recognized as distinctive …
From Self-Portrait to Selfie
Representing the Self in the Moving Image
Av Muriel Tinel-Temple, Laura Busetta m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
840 kr
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Self-portraiture is a singular form within the broad field of first-person film and video – not so much an account of the filmmaker’s intimate life as a representation of the artist at a given instant. With deep roots in the Western tradition of painting and literature, self-portraiture in the …
Haunting the Left Bank
Mortality and Intersubjectivity in Varda, Resnais and Marker
Häftad, 2022
697 kr
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«A significant and astute contribution whose insights across film studies, philosophy, and feminism demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Left Bank filmmakers Varda, Resnais and Marker.»(Steven Ungar, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa)Engaging with contemporary …
Political Gesture in Pedro Costa’s Films
Av Patrícia Sequeira Brás, Fiona Handyside m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
643 kr
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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa’s formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa’s films suggest a critical thinking posited through the …
Reframing the European Other
Identity and Belonging in Contemporary French and German Cinema
Av Kamil Zapaśnik, Fiona Handyside m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
699 kr
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During the last three decades, Europe has undergone numerous periods of economic and political instability. The process of European integration, once hailed as a beacon of a peaceful co-operation between many, if not all, European nations appears to be stagnating, giving rise to notoriously more …
New Italian Cinema of Precarity
Av Maria Elena Alampi, Fiona Handyside m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
680 kr
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«This is an excellent and innovative study of one of the most crucial topics of today. Using gender, sexuality, and race as theoretical frameworks, The New Italian Cinema of Precarity brilliantly enlivens the study of precarity and unemployment as portrayed in contemporary Italian cinema. A …
Thinking Images
The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema
Häftad, 2012
859 kr
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The essay film – ‘a form that thinks’ – serves to create a self-reflexive space for contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the creative involvement of the spectator. Using film to provoke thought has never been more important than now, when non-fiction films are gaining in …
Of Empire and the City
Remapping Early British Cinema
Häftad, 2014
907 kr
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This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film from 1895 to 1914, featuring depictions of London, Glasgow, Dublin, Delhi and other British colonial cities. The author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of the economic, social and cultural life of …
Cinema at the Shore
The Beach in French Film
Av Fiona Handyside, Wendy Everett m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
658 kr
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From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only …
Performing the Modern German
Performance and Identity in Contemporary German Cinema
Häftad, 2013
786 kr
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Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis once more. What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? What are the distinguishing features of …
Time and Space in Contemporary Greek-Cypriot Cinema
Häftad, 2015
837 kr
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Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? How has this event shaped the imagination of contemporary filmmakers, and how might one define the new national cinema that has emerged as a result? This book explores such questions by analysing a range of Greek-Cypriot …
Visual Anthropology in Sardinia
Av Silvio Carta
Häftad, 2014
1634 kr
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Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films construct different experiences and identities, and reflecting on the advantages of the medium of documentary film over written ethnographic …
Listening to the French New Wave
The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema
Häftad, 2014
907 kr
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As perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the scholarship, and the study of …
Cinema of the Swimming Pool
Av Christopher Brown, Pam Hirsch
Häftad, 2014
678 kr
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The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection …
Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present
Av Tonia Kazakopoulou, Mikela Fotiou
Häftad, 2017
1009 kr
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This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema builds and expands on existing work in the field, providing a coherent analysis of films which, despite their international importance, have so far received limited critical attention. The volume maps key trends in Greek cinema since the …
Italian Cinema
New Directions
Av Wendy Everett, William Hope
Häftad, 2004
931 kr
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Italian cinema currently finds itself in a transitional phase after a highly successful period in which it was associated with the work of directors such as Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, and Pasolini, and with innovative styles of film-making, principally neorealism. This book explores the …
Ripping Open the Set
French Film Design, 1930–1939
Av Ben McCann, Wendy Everett m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
891 kr
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French film design throughout the 1930s was not just descriptive, but also expressive: sets were not merely part of the background, but were vital components of a film’s overall atmosphere, impact and critical afterlife. This was a period when sets were ‘ripped open’, as painted backdrops were …
Polish Postcommunist Cinema
From Pavement Level
Häftad, 2007
941 kr
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This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both the film industry and film artistry. It considers the main ideas behind the institutional changes in the Polish film industry after the collapse of communism and …
Pictures of the Mind
Surrealist Photography and Film
Av Ramona Fotiade, Wendy Everett m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
910 kr
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Pictures of the Mind is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theoretical discourse on prominent post-war trends in art house cinema. Roland Barthes’s interpretation of the photographic image, alongside Jacques …
In the Dark Room
Marguerite Duras and Cinema
Av Julie Beaulieu, Rosanna Maule
Häftad, 2009
1146 kr
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This book examines Duras’s contribution to contemporary cinema. The ‘dark room’ in the collection’s title refers to one of Duras’s metaphors for the writing process, la chambre noire, as the solitary space of literary creation, the place where she struggles to project her ‘internal shadow’ onto the …
Cross-Channel Perspectives
The French Reception of British Cinema
Av Leila Wimmer
Häftad, 2008
962 kr
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This book is the first ever full-length study of the reception of British cinema in post-war France, challenging François Truffaut’s infamous dismissal of British cinema as ‘a contradiction in terms’, a comment which has been, and still is, widely reproduced, yet has until now remained critically …
Crossing the Wall
The Western Feature Film Import in East Germany
Häftad, 2011
636 kr
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More than twenty years after its collapse in 1989, the Berlin Wall remains a symbol of the vigour with which communist East Germany kept out the ‘corrupting influences’ of neighbouring West Germany. However, despite the restrictions, a surprising number of artistic works, including international …
Revisiting Space
Space and Place in European Cinema
Av Wendy Everett, Axel Goodbody
Häftad, 2005
886 kr
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The role of space and place in the creation of visual narratives constitutes one of the most dynamic and exciting debates in contemporary film studies. How does film construct space? What are the spatial codes and strategies that it uses? What is the relationship between space and time in film? How …
Questions of Colour in Cinema
From Paintbrush to Pixel
Häftad, 2007
625 kr
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Colour is one of the few remaining uncharted territories of film studies, and its centrality to the construction and reception of film narratives has only recently been recognised. After a century of widespread critical and theoretical neglect, colour is now poised to become a prime focus within …
National and Beyond
The Globalisation of Finnish Cinema in the Films of Aki and Mika Kaurismaeki
Av Pietari Kääpä, Wendy Everett m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
359 kr
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The films of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki are part of a globalising Finnish cinema, challenging conventional parameters at every turn. This work examines the films that the Kaurismäkis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 – films which mobilise various methods to reflect, …
