Contemporary European Cinema: Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367582258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 198 str.

Betty Kaklamanidou; Ana Corbalán

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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 21^st 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.