European cinema: face to face with Hollywood / Thomas Elsaesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Europe.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Europe.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (563 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2005.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe's national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different debates and presents a broader framework for understanding the forces at work since the 1960s. These include the interface of "world cinema" and the rise of Asian cinemas, the importance of the international film festival circuit, the role of television, as well as the changing aesthetics of auteur cinema. New audiences have different allegiances, and new technologies enable networks to reshape identities, but European cinema still has an important function in setting critical and creative agendas, even as its economic and institutional bases are in transition.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility?

National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions

European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood

ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries

Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe

Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990's

Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography

Ingmar Bergman - Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco

Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found

Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse

Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light

The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken

Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel

Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980's

Europe-Hollywood-Europe

Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles

Raoul Ruiz's L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé

Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema

"If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man

British Television in the 1980's Through The Looking Glass

German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror

Central Europe Looking West

Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator

Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf / Wedel, Michael

Under Western Eyes: What Does Žižek Want?

Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory's No Man's Land

Europe Haunted by History and Empire

Is History an Old Movie?

Edgar Reitz's Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood

Discourse and History: One Man's War - An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky

Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes

Joseph Losey's The Go-Between

Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen

Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport

Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death

Andy Engel's Melancholia

On The High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky's Dutch Adventure

Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra's Erendira

Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema

Conclusion

European Cinema as World Cinema: A New Beginning?

European Cinema: A Brief Bibliography

List of Sources and Places of First Publication

Index of Names

Index of Film Titles / Subjects

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789048505173

9048505178

9781423746256

1423746252

9781003695035

OCLC:

630532329

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access