This title raises issues that question European culture and the nature of national cinema, including: the cultural relationship with Hollywood, debates over cultural plurality and diversity; and postcolonial travels and the hybridization of the national formation.
This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and humanitarian crisis.
This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like this.
Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to navigate a dilemma: how to recognize, affirm, and value ...
Through a new model of cinematic worldmaking, Breger examines the ways in which these works produce unexpected and destabilizing affects that invite viewers to imagine new connections among individuals or groups.
In Making Worlds, Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European art house cinema provides ways of thinking about and producing new types of collectivities in response to these political trends.
Taking a long view of the crisis and considering geopolitical changes that took place towards the end of the 20th century, this book examines European cinema's response to the economic, political and social crises that afflict Europe in the ...
Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on ...
This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe.
Taking a thematic approach the volume draws on a wide range of case studies from different countries to reflect the breadth of contemporary European cinema.
David Jasper, “On Systematizing the Unsystematic: A Response,” in Explora- tions in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning, eds. Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz (Oxford: ... Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline.