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Popular European Cinema

European cinema is not just art cinema, but nor is popular cinema in Europe just Hollywood in foreign dress. In fact, the styles, stars and genres of popular European cinema - Swedish melodramas, Italian horror movies, French musicals - all have their own conventions, superficially similar to Hollywood and yet certainly distinct from it.

The popular cinema of Europe has been surprisingly little studied either as art or social document. Popular European Cinema seeks to fill this gap while illuminating two compelling contemporary issues: the nature of the 'popular' and the new Europe.

Films that are very popular with audiences in, say, Finland and Spain, are seldom successful elsewhere. This book examines this paradox which is further complicated by the fact that Europe itself is not a unified phenomenon, not least in the light of recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonial Western Europe. Through their individual studies, the contributors open up a new area of study, using the medium of film to focus on and celebrate the diversities of popular European culture.

The editors : Richard Dyer is head of the Film Studies department at the University of Warwick. Ginette Vincendeau is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Warwick.

Popular European Cinema

Edited by
Richard Dyer and Ginette Vincendeau

First published 1992

by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
a division of Routledge, Taylor & Francis
270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016

Transferred to Digital Printing 2006

The collection 1992 Richard Dyer and Ginette Vincendeau

Individual contributions the individual contributors 1992

Phototypeset in 10 on 12 point Baskerville by
Intype Ltd, London

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Popular European cinema.
I. Dyer, Richard II. Vincendeau, Ginette
306.485

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Popular European cinema / edited by Richard Dyer and
Ginette Vincendeau.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Motion picturesEuropeCongresses. 2. EuropePopular
cultureCongresses. I. Vincendeau, Ginette.
PN1993.5.E8P6 1992
791.43094dc20 91-40138
ISBN 0-415-06802-9
0-415-06803-7 pbk

Publisher's Note

Tne publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent

Contents

Dudley Andrew

Jos Arroyo

Christian Bossno

Franois de la Bretque

Thomas Elsaesser

Maria Enzensberger

Sue Harper

Malgorzata Hendrykowska

Veijo Hietala, Ari Honka-Hallila, Hanna Kangasniemi, Martti Lahti, Kimmo Laine and Jukka Sihvonen

Jean-Pierre Jeancolas

Carol Jenks

Michle Lagny

Anne Marit Myrstad

V. F. Perkins

Heide Schlpmann

Anita Skwara

Tytti Soila

Christopher Wagstaff

Dudley Andrew heads the Institute for Cinema and Culture at the University of Iowa. He has written widely on film theory and film criticism. He has just completed a study of French poetic realism, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Jos Arroyo wrote on Almodvar for his MA dissertation at the University of East Anglia in 1989, He is presently writing his doctoral dissertation on 'nation and narration in Quebec cinema' at Simon Fraser University

Christian Bossno works for La Revue du cinma and CinmAction. He guest-edited three issues of the latter, on Cinmas paysans ('Rural films'), Cinmas de I'migration ('Emigration films') and Youssef Chahine I'Alexandrie. He is the author of 200 tlastes franais ('200 French television directors').

Franois de la Breteque teaches film history at the University Paul Valery in Montpellier, He is at present finishing a thesis on the representation of the medieval in film.

Thomas Elsaesser is Chair of the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Among his recent publications are New German Cinema: A History and Early Cinema: Space. Frame Narrative.

Maria Enzensberger taught film studies at Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke-on-Trent, and at Derby College of Higher Education, Derby.

Sue Harper teaches at Portsmouth Polytechnic. She has published a range of articles on British cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. Her book The Representation of History in British Feature Film 1933-1950 is to be published shortly by the British Film Institute.

Malgorzata Hendrykowska teaches film history and theory at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Her recent publications are on early cinema, and her next book is entitled Film in kulturze polskiej przed rokiem 1914 ('Film in Polish culture before 1914').

Veijo Hietala is Senior Lecturer, Hanna Kangasmemi, Martti Lahti and Kimmo Laine are research students, and Jukka Sihvonen is Associate Professor, in Cinema and Television Studies at the University of Turku. Ari Honka-Hallila teaches Finnish in Turku.

Jean-Pierre Jeancolas works as a film critic for Positif. He is the author of several works on French cinema, including 15 ans d'annes trente, le cinma des Franais 1929-44 ('The 1930s lasted fifteen years, the cinema of the French 1929-44'); he has just finished a history of Hungarian cinema.

Carol Jenks 's areas of research are horror films and melodrama, and she is particularly interested in political questions of gender and representation.

Miehle Lagny teaches film at the University of Paris III. She is co-author of Gnrique des annes 30 ('Crediting the 1930s') and has published a study on Visconti. She has just completed a book entitled Mthode historique et histoire du cinma ('Historical method and film history'), and is at present working on cinema and popular culture.

Anne Marit Myrstad is a scholar at the Institute of Drama, Film and Theatre at the University of Trondheim. Her main area of research is Norwegian fiction films of the 1920s.

V. F. Perkins lectures in film studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Film as Film and one of the editors of the journal Movie .

Heide Schlpmann teaches at the University of Frankfurt and is a member of the editorial board of Frauen und Film. She has recently published Unheimlichkeit des Blicks. Das Drama des frhen deutschen Kinos ('The eeriness of the look. The drama of early German cinema').

Anita Skwara lectures in the Film History and Theory department of the Silesian University, Katowice, and contributes to weekly and monthly film publications as well as Polish TV programmes. She is currently finishing a PhD thesis on 'The post-modernist image of the body in Peter Greenaway's cinema'.

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