The New European Cinema: Redrawing The Map (film And Culture Series)
by Rosalind Galt Ph.D. /
2006 / English / EPUB
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New European Cinema
New European Cinema offers a compelling response to the
changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic,
and historical developments through innovative readings of some of
the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made
around the time of the revolutions of 1989 but set in post-World
War II Europe, these films grapple with the reunification of
Germany, the disintegration of the Balkans, and a growing sense of
historical loss and disenchantment felt across the continent. They
represent a period in which national borders became blurred and the
events of the mid-twentieth-century began to be reinterpreted from
a multinational European perspective.
offers a compelling response to the
changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic,
and historical developments through innovative readings of some of
the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made
around the time of the revolutions of 1989 but set in post-World
War II Europe, these films grapple with the reunification of
Germany, the disintegration of the Balkans, and a growing sense of
historical loss and disenchantment felt across the continent. They
represent a period in which national borders became blurred and the
events of the mid-twentieth-century began to be reinterpreted from
a multinational European perspective.
Featuring in-depth case studies of films from Italy, Germany,
eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, Rosalind Galt reassesses the role
that nostalgia, melodrama, and spectacle play in staging history.
She analyzes Giuseppe Tornatore's
Featuring in-depth case studies of films from Italy, Germany,
eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, Rosalind Galt reassesses the role
that nostalgia, melodrama, and spectacle play in staging history.
She analyzes Giuseppe Tornatore'sCinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso, Michael
Radford's
, Michael
Radford'sIl Postino
Il Postino, Gabriele Salvatores's
, Gabriele Salvatores'sMediterraneo
Mediterraneo, Emir Kusturica's
, Emir Kusturica'sUnderground
Underground, and Lars
von Trier's
, and Lars
von Trier'sZentropa
Zentropa, and contrasts them with films of the
immediate postwar era, including the neorealist films of Roberto
Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, socialist realist cinema in
Yugoslavia, Billy Wilder's
, and contrasts them with films of the
immediate postwar era, including the neorealist films of Roberto
Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, socialist realist cinema in
Yugoslavia, Billy Wilder'sA Foreign Affair
A Foreign Affair, and Carol
Reed's
, and Carol
Reed'sThe Third Man
The Third Man. Going beyond the conventional focus on
national cinemas and heritage, Galt's transnational approach
provides an account of how post-Berlin Wall European cinema
inventively rethought the identities, ideologies, image, and
popular memory of the continent. By connecting these films to
political and philosophical debates on the future of Europe, as
well as to contemporary critical and cultural theories, Galt
redraws the map of European cinema.
. Going beyond the conventional focus on
national cinemas and heritage, Galt's transnational approach
provides an account of how post-Berlin Wall European cinema
inventively rethought the identities, ideologies, image, and
popular memory of the continent. By connecting these films to
political and philosophical debates on the future of Europe, as
well as to contemporary critical and cultural theories, Galt
redraws the map of European cinema.
