Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe

Thomas Austin; Angelos Koutsourakis

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Cinema of Crisis

Film and Contemporary Europe

Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448529

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Investigates contemporary European cinema’s response to the challenges posed to Europe by economic/political crises

Offers the first book-length investigation of European cinema’s response to the economic crisis
Provides a survey of cinemas that have not received much critical attention from scholarship. In other words, this is one of the few books on European cinema that features many essays on Eastern European films and filmmakers
Explores a long view of the crisis that can offer a better understanding of questions of politics and representation in contemporary European Cinema
Watch a video of Thomas Austin discussing Cinema of Crisis

Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across a continent in flux. This urgent and necessary collection brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers’ diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades. Covering topics such as the collapse of the eastern bloc; deindustrialisation; the 2008 crash and the eurozone debt crisis; austerity and neoliberalism, as well as ‘Fortress Europe’ and the ‘refugee crisis’, this book investigates a range of audiovisual forms, including documentaries, the work of arthouse auteurs, and videos posted on YouTube. It engages in highly topical debates in political and aesthetic spheres, and explores key interfaces between the two.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Aesthetics of Crisis: Art Cinema and Neoliberalism Alex Lykidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Beyond Neoliberalism? Gift Economies in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers Martin O’Shaughnessy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. The Resurgence of Modernism and its Critique of Liberalism in the Cinema of Crisis Angelos Koutsourakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4. Post-Fordism in Active Life, Industrial Revolution and The Nothing Factory Patricia Sequeira Brás Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. Re-evaluating Crisis Politics in the Work of Aku Louhimies Kate Moffat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Crisis of Cinema/Cinema of Crisis: The Car Crash and the Berlin School Olivia Landry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7. Representing and Escaping the Crises of Neoliberalism: Veiko Õunpuu’s Films and Methods Eva Näripea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. The Future is Past, the Present Cannot be Fixed: Ken Loach and the Crisis Martin Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
9. It Could Happen to You: Empathy and Empowerment in Iberian Austerity Cinema Iván Villarmea Álvarez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
10. The Double Form of Neoliberal Subjugation: Crisis on the Eastern European Screen Anna Batori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
11. Housing Problems: Britain’s Housing Crisis and Documentary Anna Viola Sborgi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
12. Miserable Journeys, Symbolic Rescues: Refugees and Migrants in the Cinema of Fortress Europe Thomas Austin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
13. Frontlines: Migrants in Hungarian Documentaries in the 2010s Lóránt Stőhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
14. Mongrel Attunement in White God Rosalind Galt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
15. Labour and Exploitation by Displacement in Recent European Film Constantin Parvulescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
16. A Hushed Crisis: The Visual Narratives of (Eastern) Europe’s Antiziganism Dina Iordanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 20 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474448529