The Routledge Companion to European Cinema

The Companion to European Cinema explores European cinema's diverse perspectives, challenging Eurocentric narratives and offering a comprehensive understanding of Europe through film. It covers various topics, including colonialism, race, gender, and identities, and provides a valuable resource for students, scholars, and historians.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 466 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presenting a fresh and diverse scholarship, this comprehensive collection of 43 original chapters delves into the insights European cinema offers about Europe. It engages with European cinema that explores issues of European colonial, racialized, and gendered power, aims to move beyond the perceived centers of Europe, and challenges various conceptualizations of Europe from multiple perspectives. The book explores the rich, complex, and diverse community/ies created by and through European films, encompassing a wide range of cinematic traditions, including Kurdish, Hollywood, and Singapore cinema, as well as the cinema of Poland, Spanish colonial films, and the European gangster genre. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including individual films, film movements, filmmakers, stars, scholarship, representations and identities, audiences, production practices, genres, and more, all analyzed within their respective contexts to provide a comprehensive picture of Europe as depicted in European films. The Companion serves as an excellent entry point for students and scholars in film, European studies, queer studies, cultural studies, historians with an interest in audio-visual culture, nationalism and transnationalism, and those working in language-based area studies.

Weight: 846g
Dimension: 245 x 176 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032136714