Contemporary European cinema : crisis narratives and narratives in crisis /

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. With the recession having become a popular theme of economic, demographic and...

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Other Authors: Kaklamanidou, Betty, 1972- (Editor), Corbalán, Ana (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contested terms, the European Union contribution and a financial crisis / Betty Kaklamanidou and Ana Corbalán
  • National, transnational and intermedial perspectives in post-2008 European cinema / Thomas Elsaesser
  • France after the crisis : work, home and flexible solidarity in Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (2011) and Ma part du gateau (2011) / Michael Gott
  • Spanish science fiction film in times of emergency : crisis and entrapment in Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial and David and Álex Pastor's The last days / Antonio Cordoba
  • Narratives of migration and the sense of crisis in post-2008 European cinema / György Kalmár
  • Undocumented migration in European borderlands : re-locating the crisis in contemporary documentaries / Jan Kühnemund
  • Post-2008 European comedies of crisis : La vida inesperada and Casse-tête chinois / Debra J. Ochoa
  • Depression as aesthetic answer to the socioeconomic crisis in two days, one night / Tobias Dietrich
  • French and Italian co-production redux : the Fondo initiative / claudia Romanelli
  • The contemporary Serbian film industry : issues of production and distribution (2008-2017) / Sandra Nikolic and Biljana Mitrovic
  • La jeunesse désaffectée in contemporary Serbian cinema / Nevena Daković and Maša Seničić
  • The Greek new wave : representing work and unemployment in crisis / Ursula-Helen Kassaveti and Afroditi Nikolaidou
  • Contemporary Greek and Polish "best foreign language films" in an age of austerity / Anne Ciecko.