European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

2020-05-24 Performing Arts

Author : Ingrid Lewis
Release : 2020-05-24
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by : Ingrid Lewis

Download or read book European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century written by Ingrid Lewis. This book was released on 2020-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film. Importantly, this collection is the first of its kind to apply a transversal approach to European Cinema, bringing together the East and the West, while providing a broad picture of key trends, aesthetics, genres, national identities, and transnational concerns. Lewis and Canning’s collection effectively addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary European film, such as ecology, migration, industry, identity, disability, memory, auteurship, genre, small cinemas, and the national and international frameworks which underpin them. Combining accessible original research with a thorough grounding in recent histories and contexts, each chapter includes key definitions, reflective group questions, and a summative case study. Overall, this book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of recent European Cinema, making it an invaluable resource for lecturers and students across a variety of film-centred modules.

Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema

2019-01-30 Performing Arts

Author : Barbara Mennel
Release : 2019-01-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema written by Barbara Mennel. This book was released on 2019-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

2020-05-23 Performing Arts

Author : Ingrid Lewis
Release : 2020-05-23
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by : Ingrid Lewis

Download or read book European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century written by Ingrid Lewis. This book was released on 2020-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film. Importantly, this collection is the first of its kind to apply a transversal approach to European Cinema, bringing together the East and the West, while providing a broad picture of key trends, aesthetics, genres, national identities, and transnational concerns. Lewis and Canning’s collection effectively addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary European film, such as ecology, migration, industry, identity, disability, memory, auteurship, genre, small cinemas, and the national and international frameworks which underpin them. Combining accessible original research with a thorough grounding in recent histories and contexts, each chapter includes key definitions, reflective group questions, and a summative case study. Overall, this book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of recent European Cinema, making it an invaluable resource for lecturers and students across a variety of film-centred modules.

Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-first Century

2015 Collective memory and motion pictures

Author : Gerd Bayer
Release : 2015
Genre : Collective memory and motion pictures
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Download or read book Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-first Century written by Gerd Bayer. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to developments in both fiction and documentary films following the innovations of a postmodern aesthetic. With the number of witnesses to the atrocities of Nazi Germany dwindling, medialized representations of the Holocaust take on greater cultural significance. At the same time, visual responses to the task of keeping memories alive have to readjust their value systems and reconsider their artistic choices.

Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century

2020-12-17 Performing Arts

Author : Cynthia Vich
Release : 2020-12-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century written by Cynthia Vich. This book was released on 2020-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation’s diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight into how global debates around cinema are played out on and off screen in a distinctive national context. The insertion of post-conflict Peru within neoliberalism resulted in widespread commodification of all areas of life, significantly impacting cinema culture. Consequently, the principal structural concept of this collection is the interplay between film production and market forces, an interaction which makes dynamism and instability the defining features of 21st-century Peruvian cinema.

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