Cinema at the Shore

Fiona Handyside

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 14
• From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon's intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and ... Lees meer

Pictures of the Mind

Ramona Fotiade

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 5
• This book is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theoretical discou... Lees meer

Questions of Colour in Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 6
• Colour is one of the few remaining uncharted territories of film studies, and its centrality to the construction and reception of film narratives has ... Lees meer

Of Empire and the City

Maurizio Cinquegrani

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 15
• This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film 1895-1914, from London to Delhi. The author argues that the films are not ... Lees meer

Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 21
• This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema explores key trends over the past 25 years, including documentary and avant-garde filmmaki... Lees meer

Revisiting Space

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 2
• The role of space and place in the creation of visual narratives constitutes one of the most dynamic and exciting debates in contemporary film studies... Lees meer

Reframing the European Other

Kamil Zapaśnik

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 24
• During the last three decades, Europe has undergone numerous periods of economic and political instability. The process of European integration, once ... Lees meer

The Cinema of the Swimming Pool

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 17
• The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces conv... Lees meer

Cross-Channel Perspectives

Leila Wimmer

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 8
• This book is the first ever full-length study of the reception of British cinema in post-war France, challenging François Truffaut's infamous dismissa... Lees meer

From Self-Portrait to Selfie

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 22
• In the age of the selfie, this book traces self-portraiture in film and video from the Western tradition in painting and literature into present-day d... Lees meer

Crossing the Wall

Rosemary Stott

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 11
• More than twenty years after its collapse in 1989, the Berlin Wall remains a symbol of the vigour with which communist East Germany kept out the 'corr... Lees meer

Italy on Screen

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 9
• This collection of articles arises out of the international conference 'Italy on Screen', held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Londo... Lees meer

Listening to the French New Wave

Orlene Denice McMahon

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 16
• This book offers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, offering a new look at this popular film movement. The... Lees meer

Performing the Modern German; Performance and Identity in Contemporary German Cinema

Matthias Uecker

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 10
• Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis... Lees meer

In the Dark Room

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 7
• This book examines Duras's contribution to contemporary cinema. The 'dark room' in the collection's title refers to one of Duras's metaphors for the w... Lees meer

Time and Space in Contemporary Greek-Cypriot Cinema

Lisa Socrates

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 18
• Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? This book explores the development of contemporary Greek-Cypriot cinema in... Lees meer

Ripping Open the Set

Ben McCann

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 13
• French film design throughout the 1930s was a period of 'ripping open' film sets to make them not just descriptive, but also expressive. This book det... Lees meer

Italian Cinema

Wendy Everett

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 1
• Italian cinema currently finds itself in a transitional phase after a highly successful period in which it was associated with the work of directors s... Lees meer

The Political Gesture in Pedro Costa's Films

Patrícia Sequeira Brás

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 25
• This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest tha... Lees meer

Visual Anthropology in Sardinia

Silvio Carta

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 19
• Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films constr... Lees meer

The National and Beyond

Pietari Kääpä

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 12
• The films of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki are part of a globalising Finnish cinema, challenging conventional parameters at every turn. This work examines t... Lees meer

Thinking Images

David Montero

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 3
• The essay film - 'a form that thinks' - serves to create a self-reflexive space for contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the... Lees meer

Polish Postcommunist Cinema

Ewa Mazierska

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 4
• This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both the film industry... Lees meer

Mapping Cinematic Norths

• Paperback | Engels | New Studies in European Cinema | nr. 20
• Northern landscapes, soundscapes, characters and narratives are defined and recognised as distinctive image-spaces within film and television. However... Lees meer