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European Identity in Cinema

Jul 2005
Book
Wendy Everett
The identity of European cinema like the identity of Europe itself is multiple complex and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films directors and national cinemas this volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to current film debate.<BR xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/><BR/>While the book’s critical essays offer keen insight into the complex identities of European cinema its combination of breadth and detail and its interdisciplinary focus and background ensure its wider relevance to anyone interested in questions of contemporary culture and European affairs in general. Its stylistic clarity and freedom from jargon make it readable and accessible. The essays have been written by respected academics working in a number of disciplines including Film and Media Studies Modern Languages and Cultural Studies.<BR/><BR/>Topics include questions of memory and identity; filmic autobiography and first-person narration; cultural identity; peripheral voices; popular film and political film. Individual directors and different national cinemas including those of France Germany Northern Ireland Russia Scotland and Spain are viewed in a wider pan- European context.
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British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s

Coming to a TV Near You
Apr 2005
Book
Su Holmes
This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC 1952-3) Picture Parade (BBC 1956) and Film Fanfare (ABC 1956-7) - and argues that it was these texts which played the central role in the developing relations between the media. Particularly when it comes to Britain the early co-existence of television and cinema has been seen as hostile and antagonistic but in situating these programmes within the contexts of their institutional production aesthetic construction and reception the book aims to ‘reconstruct’ television’s coverage of the cinema as crucial to the fabric of British film and television culture at the time. It demonstrates how the roles of cinema and television - as media industries and cultural forms but crucially as sites of screen entertainment - effectively came together at this time in such a way that is unique to this decade.
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Street Scenes

Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin
Oct 2004
Book
Nicolas Whybrow

Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political social and cultural upheaval Berlin has continued since the fall of the Wall in 1989 to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration involving issues of memory nationhood and ownership. Bertolt Brecht meanwhile stands as one of the principal thinkers about art and politics in the 20th century. The 'Street Scene' model which was the foundation for his theory of an epic theatre relied precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning and everyday life. His preoccupation with the ceaselessness of change an impulse implying rupture and movement as the key characteristics informing the development of a democratic cultural identity correlates resonantly with the notion of an ever-evolving city. Premised on an understanding of performance as the articulation of movement in space Street Scenes interrogates what kind of 'life' is permitted to 'flow' in the 'new Berlin'. Central to this method is the flaneur figure a walker of streets who provides detached observations on the revealing 'detritus of modern urban existence'. Walter Benjamin himself a native of Berlin as well as friend and seminal critic of Brecht exercised the practice in exemplary form in his portrait of the city One-Way Street.

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Sensing the City through Television

Urban identities in fictional drama
Jan 2004
Book
Peter Billingham

An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama assessing their political sociological and cultural implications. The book draws on the following five key case studies for specific and detailed analysis:

* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City 

* Homicide & Life on the Street 

* Queer as Folk 

* The Cops 

* Holding On

Each is discussed in terms of structure content characterisation and narrative and each is placed within its specific ideological context. The case studies are intended to represent an interesting range of British and American cities and city sub-cultures. The author extends his analysis to investigate the intrinsic issues related to the implications of popular and high drama and culture.

This study includes exclusive interviews with the writers and directors of some of the series discussed. This new material provides new insights into the intended presentations of "city" identities for the television. As one of the first substantial investigations of the city in television drama this book reflects and contributes to a growing general interest in the politics of representation. It is also designed for accommodation into the very popular academic courses on drama and in film and media studies: as a textbook and for supplementary reading.

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The Face on the Screen

Death, Recognition & Spectatorship
Dec 2003
Book
Therese Davis
There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image…<BR xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/><BR/>The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged computer-enhanced faces of advertising the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the face to a banal image while the dream of early film theorists that the 'giant severed heads' of the screen could reveal 'the soul of man' to the masses is long since dead. And yet the end of this dream opens up the possibility for a different view of the face on the screen. The aim of the book is to seize this opportunity to rethink the facial close-up in terms other than subjectivity and identity by shifting the focus to questions of death and recognition.<BR/><BR/>In doing so the book proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face. It suggests that we focus our attention on the places in contemporary media where the face becomes unrecognisable for it is here that the facial close-up expresses the powers of death. Using Walter Benjamin's theory of the dialectical image as a critical tool the book provides detailed studies of a wide range of media spectacles of faces becoming unrecognisable. It shows how the mode of recognition enabled by these faces is a shock experience that can open our eyes to the underside of the mask of self - the unrecognisable mortal face of self we spend our lives trying not to see. Turning on itself so to speak the face exposes the fragile relationship between social recognition and facial recognizability in the images-cultures of contemporary media.
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Danish Directors

Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema
Jan 2003
Book
Ib Bondebjerg and Mette Hjort
Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike.



Each interview is preceded by a photograph of the director biographical information and a filmography. Frame enlargements are used throughout to help clarify particular points of discussion and the book as a whole is contextualised by an informative general introduction. A valuable addition to the growing library of books on Scandinavian film national cinema and minority cinema.
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Politics of Contemporary European Cinema

Jan 2002
Book
Mike Wayne
How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like this.<BR xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/><BR/>Mike Wayne identifies some key themes pertinent to a study of the contemporary cultural and political dynamics of European cinema from the mid-1980's including the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Soviet Empire.<BR/><BR/>Throughout the book issues are raised that question European culture and the nature of national cinema including;<BR/><BR/>• The cultural relationship with Hollywood;<BR/>• Debates over cultural plurality and diversity; <BR/>• The disintegration of nation states along the eastern flank;<BR/>• Postcolonial travels and the hybridisation of the national formation.
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Frames and Fictions on Television

The Politics of Identity within Drama
Jul 2001
Book
Margaret Llewellyn-Jones and Bruce Carson

Television drama both reflects and contributes to the production of cultural identity. At a time of deep cultural uncertainty how has this been represented within the programmes that help individuals make sense of their own lives and identities?

This book addresses the question head on: the contributors examine a range of issues of identity in relation to the shifting historical context while considering social class ethnicity race gender sexuality and national/diaspora identity. These are debated in relation to current aesthetic and social concerns and particular attention is paid to the changing identity of British television drama over the last 35 years:

  • the fragmentation of the home audience
  • the transnationalisation of media culture
  • the increasingly hybrid nature of programme formats and
  • the growth in popularity of US series within a British viewing context.
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Danish Directors

Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema
Jan 2001
Book
Ib Bondebjerg and Mette Hjort
Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike.



Each interview is preceded by a photograph of the director biographical information and a filmography. Frame enlargements are used throughout to help clarify particular points of discussion and the book as a whole is contextualised by an informative general introduction. A valuable addition to the growing library of books on Scandinavian film national cinema and minority cinema.
image of Sensing the City through Television

Sensing the City through Television

Urban identities in fictional drama
Dec 2000
Book
Peter Billingham

An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama assessing their political sociological and cultural implications. The book draws on the following five key case studies for specific and detailed analysis:

* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City 

* Homicide & Life on the Street 

* Queer as Folk 

* The Cops 

* Holding On

Each is discussed in terms of structure content characterisation and narrative and each is placed within its specific ideological context. The case studies are intended to represent an interesting range of British and American cities and city sub-cultures. The author extends his analysis to investigate the intrinsic issues related to the implications of popular and high drama and culture.

This study includes exclusive interviews with the writers and directors of some of the series discussed. This new material provides new insights into the intended presentations of "city" identities for the television. As one of the first substantial investigations of the city in television drama this book reflects and contributes to a growing general interest in the politics of representation. It is also designed for accommodation into the very popular academic courses on drama and in film and media studies: as a textbook and for supplementary reading.

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Spaces in European Cinema

Jan 2000
Book
Myrto Konstantarakos
How is space constructed in European Cinema?<BR xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>What ideological or artistic concerns does space "narrate"? This is one of the few studies of its kind to explore such questions and the only text to fully address the unique spatial power of the cinema. Coveing films of the 1920s right up to those of the 1990s; racial social and gendered 'mappings' of the city and its private and public spaces are considered from a fresh perspective.<BR/>The volume includes special contributions from scholars right across Europe who focus on previously neglected areas such as news and municipal cinema as well as the canon of key European films. Offreing a plurality of critical approaches the text interweaves national cinema with specific genre studies and documents the vision of individual film-makers.<BR/>Fully illustrated with a comprehensive filmography and bibliography this is a significant work for use in the study of Modern Languages or film. Spaces in European cinema is the product of the Research Centre of European Cinema at Middlesex University.
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Journal of Screenwriting

ISSN: 1759-7137
E-ISSN: 1759-7145
Journal
The Journal of Screenwriting aims to explore the nature of writing for the moving image in the broadest sense highlighting current academic thinking around scriptwriting whilst also reflecting on this with a truly international perspective and outlook. The journal will encourage the investigation of a broad range of possible methodologies and approaches to studying the scriptwriting form in particular: the history of the form contextual analysis the process of writing for the moving image the relationship of scriptwriting to the production process and how the form can be considered in terms of culture and society. The journal also aims to encourage research in the field of screenwriting the linking of scriptwriting practice to academic theory and to support and promote conferences and networking events on this subject.
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New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film

ISSN: 1474-2756
E-ISSN: 2040-0578
Journal
The journal aims to provide a platform for the study of new forms of cinematic practice and fresh approaches to cinemas hitherto neglected in western scholarship. It particularly welcomes scholarship that does not take existing paradigms and theoretical conceptualisations as given; rather it anticipates submissions that are refreshing in approach and exhibit a willingness to tackle cinematic practices that are still in the process of development into something new.
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Film, Fashion & Consumption

ISSN: 2044-2823
E-ISSN: 2044-2831
Journal
Film Fashion & Consumption is a peer-reviewed journal designed to provide an arena for the discussion of research methods and practice within and between the fields of film fashion design history art history and heritage. The journal seeks to stimulate ongoing research on these topics and to attract contributions not only from scholars researching in these areas but also from practitioners who are traditionally excluded from academic debate. The journal thus aims to unite and enlarge a community of researchers and practitioners in film fashion consumption and related fields whilst also introducing a wider audience to new work particularly to interdisciplinary research which looks at the intersections between film fashion and consumption.
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Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook

ISSN: 1601-829X
E-ISSN: 2040-0586
Journal
Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook was first published in 2002 and places particular emphasis on film television and new media. The yearbook although carrying a theme each issue welcomes a broad range of articles along with shorter review pieces.
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Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (new title: Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas)

ISSN: 1478-0488
E-ISSN: 2040-0608
Journal
In 2013 Studies in Hispanic Cinemas is changing its name to Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas to reflect more accurately its content which is dedicated to the study of Spanish-speaking and Latin American cinemas including the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South Central and North America including the Caribbean as well as Brazil.



Our target readership includes students teachers and scholars. The journal is written in English to maximize the opportunities for contact between academic disciplines such as Media Film Studies Latin American and Post-colonial Studies as well as Hispanic Studies thereby encouraging an inter- cultural and inter- disciplinary focus.



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Studies in South Asian Film & Media

ISSN: 1756-4921
E-ISSN: 1756-493X
Journal
Studies in South Asian Film and Media (SAFM) is the most promising new journal in the field. This peer-reviewed publication is committed to looking at the media and cinemas of the Indian subcontinent in their social political economic historical and increasingly globalized and diasporic contexts. The journal will evaluate these topics in relation to class caste gender race sexuality and ideology.
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Journal of African Cinemas

ISSN: 1754-9221
E-ISSN: 1754-923X
Journal
The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or identities of Africa and its peoples represented in film.
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Journal of Scandinavian Cinema

ISSN: 2042-7891
E-ISSN: 2042-7905
Journal
The Journal of Scandinavian Cinema is a new scholarly journal devoted to film in the Scandinavian countries. It aims to become the prime site for excellent research and engaging discussions on cinema in Scandinavia both within the national context of Denmark Finland Iceland Norway and Sweden and as a region existing in a globalized world.
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Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas

ISSN: 2050-4837
E-ISSN: 2050-4845
Journal
In 2013   Studies in Hispanic Cinemas  is changing its name to   Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas  to reflect more accurately its content which is dedicated to the study of Spanish-speaking and Latin American cinemas including the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South Central and North America including the Caribbean as well as Brazil.



Our target readership includes students teachers and scholars. The journal is written in English to maximize the opportunities for contact between academic disciplines such as Media Film Studies Latin American and Post-colonial Studies as well as Hispanic Studies thereby encouraging an inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary focus.



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