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Author Kaklamanidou, Betty

Title Contemporary European Cinema : Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (211 pages)
Series The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser
Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 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 cinema5. Undocumented migration in European borderlands: Relocating 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 coproduction 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 crisis12. Contemporary Greek and Polish "Best Foreign-Language Films" in an age of austerity; Index
Summary 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 sociological research in recent years, this volume examines representations of the crisis and its attendant market instability and mistrust of neoliberal political systems in film. It thus sheds light on the mediation, reimagination, and reformulation of recent history in the depiction of personal, cultural, and political memories, and raises new questions about crisis narratives in European film, asking whether the theoretical notion of "national" cinema is less or more powerful during moments of sociopolitical turbulence, and investigating the kinds of cultural representations and themes that characterize the narratives of European documentary and fictional films from both small and large national markets
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Subject Social problems in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Europe -- History.
Motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Ana M. Corbalán.
Betty Kaklamanidou.
cinema.
crisis.
crisis narratives.
critique.
European.
European Cinema.
economic crisis.
film.
history.
instability.
narrative.
neoliberal.
post-2008.
recession.
reimagination.
socio-political era.
Motion pictures
Social problems in motion pictures
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Corbalán, Ana M
ISBN 9781351347075
1351347071
9781351347068
1351347063
9781351347051
1351347055
9781315122427
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