The Europeanization of Cinema

The Europeanization of Cinema
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780252096334
ISBN-13 : 0252096339
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Europeanization of Cinema by : Randall Halle

In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of "interzones"--geographical and ideational spaces of transit, interaction, transformation, and contested diversity--as a mechanism for analyzing European cinema. He focuses especially on films about borders, borderlands, and cultural zones as he traces the development of interzones from the inception of central European cinema to the avant-garde films of today. Throughout, he shows how cinema both reflects and engenders interzones that explore the important questions of Europe's social order: imperialism and nation-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; "first contact" between former adversaries (such as East and West Germany) following World War II and the Cold War; and migration, neo-colonialism, and cultural imperialism in the twenty-first century. Ultimately, Halle argues that today's cinema both produces and reflects imaginative communities. He demonstrates how, rather than simply erasing boundaries, the European Union instead fosters a network of cultural interzones that encourage cinematic exploration of the new Europe's processes and limits of connectivity, tolerance, and cooperation.

German Film After Germany

German Film After Germany
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780252033292
ISBN-13 : 0252033299
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis German Film After Germany by : Randall Halle

A focused examination of German film's transformation from a national to transnational industry

The Europeanization of Cinema

The Europeanization of Cinema
Author :
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0252079957
ISBN-13 : 9780252079955
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Europeanization of Cinema by : Randall Halle

In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of "interzones"--geographical and ideational spaces of transit, interaction, transformation, and contested diversity--as a mechanism for analyzing European cinema. He focuses especially on films about borders, borderlands, and cultural zones as he traces the development of interzones from the inception of central European cinema to the avant-garde films of today. Throughout, he shows how cinema both reflects and engenders interzones that explore the important questions of Europe's social order: imperialism and nation-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; "first contact" between former adversaries (such as East and West Germany) following World War II and the Cold War; and migration, neo-colonialism, and cultural imperialism in the twenty-first century. Ultimately, Halle argues that today's cinema both produces and reflects imaginative communities. He demonstrates how, rather than simply erasing boundaries, the European Union instead fosters a network of cultural interzones that encourage cinematic exploration of the new Europe's processes and limits of connectivity, tolerance, and cooperation.

Visual Alterity

Visual Alterity
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780252052590
ISBN-13 : 0252052595
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Visual Alterity by : Randall Halle

Reconsidering the dynamics of perception Using cinema to explore the visual aspects of alterity, Randall Halle analyzes how we become cognizant of each other and how we perceive and judge another person in a visual field. Halle draws on insights from philosophy and recent developments in cognitive and neuroscience to argue that there is no pure "natural" sight. We always see in a particular way, from a particular vantage point, and through a specific apparatus, and Halle shows how human beings have used cinema to experiment with the apparatus of seeing for over a century. Visual alterity goes beyond seeing difference to being conscious of how one sees difference. Investigating the process allows us to move from mere perception to apperception, or conscious perception. Innovative and insightful, Visual Alterity merges film theory with philosophy and cutting-edge science to propose new ways of perceiving and knowing.

Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe

Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9780253037916
ISBN-13 : 0253037913
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe by : Berna Gueneli

In Fatih Akın's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, Berna Gueneli explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akın. The first minority director in Germany to receive numerous national and international awards, Akın makes films that are informed by Europe's past, provide cinematic imaginations about its present and future, and engage with public discourses on minorities and migration in Europe through his treatment and representation of a diverse, multiethnic, and multilingual European citizenry. Through detailed analyses of some of Akın's key works—In July, Head-On, and The Edge of Heaven, among others—Gueneli identifies Akın's unique stylistic use of multivalent sonic and visual components and multinational characters. She argues that the soundscapes of Akın's films—including music and multiple languages, dialects, and accents—create an "aesthetic of heterogeneity" that envisions an expanded and integrated Europe and highlights the political nature of Akın's decisions regarding casting, settings, and audio. At a time when belonging and identity in Europe is complicated by questions of race, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship, Gueneli demonstrates how Akın's aesthetics intersect with politics to reshape notions of Europe, European cinema, and cinematic history.

Cinema and Politics

Cinema and Politics
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781443804158
ISBN-13 : 1443804150
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema and Politics by : Aslı Kotaman

This volume presents varied approaches concerning the relation between cinema and politics which focus on policies, eras, countries, mainstream and art cinema productions, transnational examples, changing narratives and identities. Both cinema and politics have actors and directors for their scenes, and in this sense their discourses intermingle. The performances of the “actors/actresses” in both arenas attract particular attention. The actors, directors, and producers with ‘hyphenated/creolised/hybrid identities’ such as German-Turks, directors of Balkan cinema, or Italian filmmakers of Turkish origin give a wide and refreshing perspective to the discussion of Europe in the media. What these ‘mediated identities’ represent goes beyond the limits of the old Europe, towards the different sensitivity of the New Europe. Scholars and advanced students of Film Studies, European Studies, Identity Politics, Migration / Emigration and Gender Studies will find this volume of integral importance to their work.

The European Puzzle

The European Puzzle
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 1571816267
ISBN-13 : 9781571816269
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The European Puzzle by : Marion Demossier

The twin concepts of "Culture" and "Identity" are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge the traditional boundaries within the issue of the construction of Europe. In the first part, historians and anthropologists from various national traditions discuss the process of the construction of Europe and its implications for cultural identities. The second section examines a number of topics at the core of the process of Europeanization and presents up-to-date information on each of these issues: political parties, regions, football, cities, the Euro, ethnicity, heritage and European cinema. Emphasis is be placed on the political structuring of cultural identities by contrasting top-down and bottom-up processes that define the tensions between the unity and diversity of the European Community.

Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema

Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9780252050961
ISBN-13 : 0252050967
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema by : Barbara Mennel

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism. More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera. Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe.

East European Cinemas

East European Cinemas
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9781135872649
ISBN-13 : 1135872643
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis East European Cinemas by : Anikó Imre

Eastern Europe has produced rich and varied film cultures--Czech, Hungarian, and Serbian among them-whose histories have been intimately tied to the transition from Soviet domination to the complexities of post-Communist life. This latest volume in the AFI Film Readers series presents a long-overdue reassessment of East European cinemas from theoretical, psychoanalytic, and gender perspectives, moving the subject beyond the traditional area studies approach to the region's films. This ambitious collection, situating Eastern Europe's many cinemas within global paradigms of film study, will be an essential work for all students of cinema and for anyone interested in the relation of film to culture and society.

European Cinema in Motion

European Cinema in Motion
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780230295070
ISBN-13 : 023029507X
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis European Cinema in Motion by : D. Berghahn

This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a comprehensive theoretical and analytical discussion of a highly productive creative sector and documents the spectrum of this area of exploration in European, transnational and World Cinema studies.