- 273 pages
- English
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About this book
Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this lively and accessible book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema and shows how European films represent the cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the text engages with diverse films, including "Luna Park", "Run, Lola, Run", "Trainspotting", "Wonderland" and many more. It tackles the issues of postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities since the 1980s under the effects of political change, from the post-communist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From the USA to Europe: Development of a New City
- Part One: Old Europe
- Old Europe’s Cities: Between Tradition and Transition
- 2 Stratified Madrid: Layers of Realism and Artifice in Almodóvar’s Cinema
- 3 A Present and a True City? Naples in Mario Martone’s Cinema
- 4 Marseilles: Intersection, Fragment, Ruin
- Part Two: Postcommunist Europe
- Cities and Cinemas after Socialism
- 5 Any Town? Warsaw in Girl Guide and Kiler by Juliusz Machulski
- 6 Berlin, a Coreless City
- 7 Cleansing the City and the Country: Moscow in the Films of Pavel Lungin
- Part Three: Case Study: Great Britain
- British Cities since the 1980s and Their Cinematic Representation
- 8 London: Fragments of a Metropolis
- 9 Escape from a Celtic City
- 10 The Eternal Postmodernity of Blackpool
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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