Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema - Softcover

Mariana Liz

9781628923025: Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628923024 ISBN 13: 9781628923025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of Europe emerges, is represented and constructed by contemporary European film. Adopting a broad and wide-ranging approach, Euro-Visions mixes political sources, historical documents and filmic texts and offers an integration of policy and economic contexts with textual analysis. Mariana Liz examines costume dramas, biopics and war films, mainstream co-productions and tales of Fortress Europe by renowned auteurs, showing how films from different European nations depict and contribute to the formation of the idea of Europe. Case studies include Girl with a Pearl Earring, La Vie en Rose, Black Book, Good Bye Lenin!, Match Point and The Silence of Lorna.

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Review:

Mariana Lizs Euro-Visions undertakes the ambitious but necessary task of offering readers a multifaceted analysis of the evolution of the European Union, its political, economic, and cultural policies in which MEDIA (Measures to Encourage the Development of the Audio-Visual Industry) plays a significant, if also, a contentious role. --Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English/Film Studies, French and Italian Languages and Literatures Department, the University of Pittsburgh, USA

In Euro-Visions, the many strands of European cinema come together concepts and narratives, genres and styles, industry matters and economic concerns. Building on the dialectical interplay of the itinerant and the stagnant, Mariana Liz guides the reader on a filmic journey against the diverse backdrop of Europe's ideological and representational complexity. --Dina Iordanova, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews, UK

About the Author:

Mariana Liz has a PhD in Film Studies from Kings College London. She has taught at Kings and Queen Mary, University of London, as well as at the University of Leeds, UK, between 2009 and 2016. She is the co-editor of The Europeanness of European Cinema (2015) and has published a number of articles on European cinema.

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