European Cinema
eBook - PDF

European Cinema

Face to Face with Hollywood

  1. 566 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

European Cinema

Face to Face with Hollywood

About this book

A collection of essays by the acclaimed film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, written between 1968 and 2005, tracks the crisis of contemporary European cinema, faced by the Hollywood giant on the one hand, and the collapsing national cinema industries on the other.

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Information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9789048505173
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility?
  5. National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions
  6. European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood
  7. ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries
  8. Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe
  9. Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990s
  10. Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography
  11. Ingmar Bergman – Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco
  12. Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found
  13. Around Painting and the “End of Cinema”: A Propos Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse
  14. Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light
  15. The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken
  16. Television and the Author’s Cinema: ZDF’s Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
  17. Touching Base: Some GermanWomen Directors in the 1980s
  18. Europe-Hollywood-Europe
  19. Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles
  20. Raoul Ruiz’s L’Hypothèse du Tableau Volé
  21. Images for Sale: The “New” British Cinema
  22. “If YouWant a Life”: The Marathon Man
  23. British Television in the 1980s Through The Looking Glass
  24. German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror
  25. Central Europe Looking West
  26. Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev’s The Switchboard Operator
  27. Defining DEFA’s Historical Imaginary: The Films of KonradWolf
  28. UnderWestern Eyes: What Does Žižek Want?
  29. Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory’s No Man’s Land
  30. Europe Haunted by History and Empire
  31. Is History an Old Movie?
  32. Edgar Reitz’s Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood
  33. Discourse and History: One Man’s War – An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky
  34. Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola’s That Night in Varennes
  35. Joseph Losey’s The Go-Between
  36. Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen
  37. Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport
  38. Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death
  39. Andy Engel’s Melancholia
  40. On The High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky’s Dutch Adventure
  41. Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra
  42. Ruy Guerra’s Erendira
  43. Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema
  44. Conclusion
  45. European Cinema as World Cinema: A New Beginning?
  46. European Cinema: A Brief Bibliography
  47. List of Sources and Places of First Publication
  48. Index of Names
  49. Index of Film Titles / Subjects