Routledge Companion to European Cinema

Name: Routledge Companion to European Cinema
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Companion to European CinemaAuthor(s): Gbor Gergely, Susan Hayward\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367461850, 978-0367461850\nSynopsis\nPresenting new and diverse scholarship, this wide-ranging collection of 43 original chapters asks what European cinema tells us about Europe. \n\nThe book engages with European cinema that attends to questions of European colonial, racialized and gendered power; seeks to decentre Europe itself (not merely its putative centres); and interrogate Europes various conceptualizations from a variety of viewpoints. It explores the broad, complex and heterogeneous community/ies produced in and by European films, taking in Kurdish, Hollywood and Singapore cinema as comfortably as the cinema of Poland, Spanish colonial films or the European gangster genre. Chapters cover numerous topics, including individual films, film movements, filmmakers, stars, scholarship, representatio.