Contemporary European Cinema

Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis
Herausgeber: Kaklamanidou, Betty; Corbalán, Ana

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Produktbeschreibung

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 later refugee and humanitarian crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138564404
• ISBN-10: 1138564400
• Artikelnr.: 55164903

Autorenporträt

Betty Kaklamanidou is a Fulbright Scholar and Assistant Professor in Film and Television Theory & History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author of Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?, The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood, and Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism. She is the co-editor of Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television, The Millennials on Film and Television, HBO's "Girls," and The 21st Century Superhero. Ana Corbalán is Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama, USA. She is the author of El cuerpo transgresor en la narrativa española contemporánea and Memorias Fragmentadas: Una mirada transatlántica a la resistencia femenina contra las dictaduras. She is also the co-editor of Toward a Multicultural Configuration of Spain: Local Cities, Global Spaces, The Dynamics of Masculinity in Contemporary Spanish Culture, and Hacia una redefinición del feminismo en el siglo XXI.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contested Terms, the European Union Contribution and a
Financial Crisis
1. National, Transnational and Intermedial Perspectives in post-2008
European Cinema
2. France after the Crisis: Work, Home and Flexible Solidarity in Les
neiges du Kilimandjaro (2011) and Ma part du gateau (2011)
3. 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
4. Narratives of Migration and the Sense of Crisis in post-2008 European
Cinema
5. Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands: Re-locating the Crisis
in Contemporary Documentaries
6. Post-2008 European Comedies of Crisis: La vida inesperada and
Casse-tête chinois
7. Depression as Aesthetic Answer to the Socioeconomic Crisis in Two Days,
One Night
8. French and Italian Co-Production Redux: The Fondo Initiative
9. The Contemporary Serbian Film Industry: Issues of Production and
Distribution (2008¿2017)
10. La jeunesse désaffectée in Contemporary Serbian Cinema
11. The Greek New Wave: Representing Work and Unemployment in Crisis
12. Contemporary Greek and Polish "Best Foreign Language Films" in an Age
of Austerity
Index