European Cinemas in the Television Age / / Dorota Ostrowska, Graham Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ostrowska, Dorota,; Roberts, Graham,
• MitwirkendeR: Agger, Gunhild,; Camporesi, Valeria,; Cigognetti, Luisa,; Grieb, Margit,; Lehman, Will,; Ostrowska, Dorota,; Radkiewicz, Małgorzata,; Roberts, Graham,; Sorlin, Pierre,; Wallis, Heather,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

European Cinemas in the Television Age is a radical attempt to rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors approach the subject from the perspective of television’s impact on the culture of cinema’s production, distribution, consumption and reception. Thus they indicate a new direction for the debate about the future of cinema in Europe. In every European country television has transformed economic, technological and aesthetic terms in which the process of cinema production had been conducted. Television’s growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema’s audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate the interaction between cinema and television in the changing and dynamic audio-visual environment. It is cinematic criticism, which was slowest in coming to terms with the presence of television and therefore most instrumental in perpetuating the view of cinema as an isolated object of aesthetic, critical and academic inquiry. The recognition of the impact of television upon European cinemas offers a more authentic and richer picture of cinemas in Europe, which are part of the complex audiovisual matrix including television and new media.FeaturesContains detailed case studies of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy and Denmark.Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of cinema and television studies: Pierre Sorlin, Luisa Cignoetti, Valeria Camporesi, Gunhild Agger, Magrit Grieb, Malgorzata Radkiewicz and Will Lehman.Will appeal to students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including cinema, television, media and communication studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: a cultural ecology of film and television in Europe -- 2. BRITAIN: Meet Mr Lucifer: British cinema under the spell of TV -- 3. FRANCE: Cinematic television or televisual cinema: INA and Canal+ -- 4. ITALY: Cinema and television: collaborators and threat -- 5. SPAIN: Bipolar visions, unified realities: a general overview -- 6. GERMANY: Screen wars: German national cinema in the age of television -- 7. DENMARK: The element of childhood from children’s television to Dogme 95 -- 8. POLAND: Costume dramas: cine-televisual alliances in the socialist and post-socialist Poland -- 9. Audio-visual production cultures: convergence and resistance -- 10. Kinesthetics: cinematic forms in the age of television -- 11. Reproduction: re-creation of cinema via the domestic screen -- Bibliography -- Index