European cinema : face to face with Hollywood / / Thomas Elsaesser.

Has European cinema, in the age of globalization, lost contact not only with the world at large, but with its own audiences? Between the thriving festival circuit and the obligatory late-night television slot, is there still a public or a public sphere for European films? Can the cinema be the appro...

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Superior document:Film culture in transition
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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Film culture in transition.
Physical Description:1 online resource (567 p.)
Notes:"NUR 674"--T.p. verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility?
  • National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions
  • European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood
  • ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries
  • Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe
  • Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990's
  • Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography
  • Ingmar Bergman - Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco
  • Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found
  • Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse
  • Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light
  • The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken
  • Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
  • Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980's
  • Europe-Hollywood-Europe
  • Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles
  • Raoul Ruiz's L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé
  • Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema
  • "If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man
  • British Television in the 1980's Through The Looking Glass
  • German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror
  • Central Europe Looking West
  • Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator
  • Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf / Wedel, Michael
  • Under Western Eyes: What Does Žižek Want?
  • Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory's No Man's Land
  • Europe Haunted by History and Empire
  • Is History an Old Movie?
  • Edgar Reitz's Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood
  • Discourse and History: One Man's War - An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky
  • Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes
  • Joseph Losey's The Go-Between
  • Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen
  • Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport
  • Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death
  • Andy Engel's Melancholia
  • On The High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky's Dutch Adventure
  • Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra
  • Ruy Guerra's Erendira
  • Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema
  • Conclusion
  • European Cinema as World Cinema: A New Beginning?
  • European Cinema: A Brief Bibliography
  • List of Sources and Places of First Publication
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Film Titles / Subjects