Mary Harrod is Assistant Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick.
Mariana Liz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds.
Alissa Timoshkina received a PhD in Film Studies from Kings College London, where she currently teaches.
The Europeanness of European Cinema
Identity, Meaning, Globalization
Edited by Mary Harrod, Mariana Liz and Alissa Timoshkina
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Contents
Mary Harrod, Mariana Liz and Alissa Timoshkina
Thomas Elsaesser
Tim Bergfelder
Anne Jckel
Mariana Liz
Catherine Wheatley
Greg De Cuir Jr.
Olof Hedling
Ginette Vincendeau
Mary Harrod
Alison Smith
Latitia Kulyk
Neil Archer
Lucy Mazdon
Sally Faulkner
Alissa Timoshkina
List of Illustrations, Table and Graph
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Table
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Acknowledgements
The idea for this volume arose from a conference on European cinema organized by the editors at Kings College London in 2010. This event had the kind and generous support of UACES (the University Association for Contemporary European Studies), as well as Kings Colleges Roberts Fund and Film Studies Department. This entire project would not have been possible without the invaluable help of Professor Ginette Vincendeau, who supported it from its inception through to its completion and to whom we are especially grateful.
We would like to thank I.B.Tauris for expressing interest in our proposal and particularly Philippa Brewster and Anna Coatman for overseeing its coming to fruition. Of course this book would not have been possible without the input and hard work of our contributors, who shared their stimulating ideas on the Europeanness of European cinema, making the creation of this volume an enlightening process. An additional special thank-you goes to Beln Vidal and Olga Kourelou for their insightful advice and helpful feedback at various stages of our work.
Finally, we would each like to thank our co-editors for their tireless patience, understanding and support. A famous fable by Ivan Krylov depicts the futile attempt of a swan, a pike and a crab to haul a cartload; thankfully, this was far from being the case here.
Contributors
Neil Archer is Lecturer in Film Studies at Keele University. He is the author of The French Road Movie: Space, Mobility, Identity (2013) and Studying The Bourne Ultimatum (2012), and has published numerous articles and book chapters on European cinema. His most recent work considers aesthetic strategies and dialogues with Hollywood in recent Scandinavian cinema.
Tim Bergfelder is Professor of Film at the University of Southampton. He is an editor of Screen and has published widely on aspects of European and international film history, including International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s (2005) and Destination London: German-Speaking migrs and British Cinema 19251950 (2008).
Greg De Cuir Jr. is the managing editor of NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies (Amsterdam University Press). His book Yugoslav Black Wave was nominated for Edition of the Year at the 2011 Belgrade International Book Fair.
Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam. From 2006 to 2012 he was Visiting Professor at Yale University, and he now teaches part-time at Columbia University, New York. Among his most recent books are: Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge, 2010, with Malte Hagener), The Persistence of Hollywood (Routledge, 2012) and German Cinema Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 (Routledge, 2013).
Sally Faulkner is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Exeter, where she is also Director of the Centre for Translating Cultures. She has published widely on Spanish film, literature and cultural studies, and is the author of Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema (Tamesis, 2004), A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and A History of Spanish Film: Cinema and Society 19102010 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). In 2012 she held an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship.
Mary Harrod is Assistant Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published on European and US cinemas in Screen and Studies in French Cinema and her monograph From France With Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy will be published by I.B.Tauris in early 2015.
Olof Hedling teaches film studies at Lund University, Sweden. He has published extensively on European film policy and regional film and television production. Recently, he has been the co-author and co-editor of A Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema (2012).
Anne Jckel is the author of European Film Industries (BFI, 2003) and numerous book chapters and journal articles on cinematographic co-productions, European cinemas and film policy.
Latitia Kulyk is a freelance researcher. She received a Licentiate (pre-doctoral degree) from the University of Jyvskyl, Finland, for her research on Nordic film policies in a European and global context. She teaches at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and is involved in a research project concerning the history of film theatres in France.
Mariana Liz received a PhD in film studies from Kings College London in 2012. She is a lecturer at the Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds. Her monograph Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema will be published by Bloomsbury in 2015.
