Crossing New Europe

Crossing New Europe
Author: Ewa Mazierska
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781904764670

Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this tradition, its relationship with the American road movie and its aesthetic forms. This movement examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises, and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of "Europe" and discusses directors and films who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America!), and other more recent contributions such as Run Lola Run, Dear Diary and The Last Resort.

Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe

Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe
Author: Berna Gueneli
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-01-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0253037913

In Fatih Akın's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, Berna Gueneli explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akın. The first minority director in Germany to receive numerous national and international awards, Akın makes films that are informed by Europe's past, provide cinematic imaginations about its present and future, and engage with public discourses on minorities and migration in Europe through his treatment and representation of a diverse, multiethnic, and multilingual European citizenry. Through detailed analyses of some of Akın's key works—In July, Head-On, and The Edge of Heaven, among others—Gueneli identifies Akın's unique stylistic use of multivalent sonic and visual components and multinational characters. She argues that the soundscapes of Akın's films—including music and multiple languages, dialects, and accents—create an "aesthetic of heterogeneity" that envisions an expanded and integrated Europe and highlights the political nature of Akın's decisions regarding casting, settings, and audio. At a time when belonging and identity in Europe is complicated by questions of race, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship, Gueneli demonstrates how Akın's aesthetics intersect with politics to reshape notions of Europe, European cinema, and cinematic history.

Crossing European Boundaries

Crossing European Boundaries
Author: Jaro Stacul
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781845453053

Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the project of a 'Europe without boundaries' involves.

The New European Cinema

The New European Cinema
Author: Rosalind Galt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231137171

Rosalind Galt offers innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s, including Emir Kusturica's 'Underground', Lars Von Trier's 'Zentropa', and Giuseppe Tornatore's 'Cinema Paradiso'.

Crossing the Sea

Crossing the Sea
Author: Wolfgang Bauer
Publisher: And Other Stories
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781908276827

The first book of reportage covering the flight of refugees from Syria to Europe via the Mediterranean. With colour photos.

European Cinema and Intertextuality

European Cinema and Intertextuality
Author: E. Mazierska
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230319548

This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland, European terrorism of the 1970s, and the end of communism.

Crossing the Alps

Crossing the Alps
Author: Lorenzo Zamboni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9789088909610

This is the first comprehensive overview on Iron Age urbanism south and north of the Alps.

Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe

Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe
Author: John Eade
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317080831

Since the beginning of the anthropology of pilgrimage, scant attention has been paid to pilgrimage and pilgrim places in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe. Seeking to address such a deficit, this book brings together scholars from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe to explore the crossing of borders in terms of the relationship between pilgrimage and politics, and the role which this plays in the process of both sacred and secular place-making. With contributions from a range of established and new academics, including anthropologists, historians and ethnologists, Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe presents a fascinating collection of case studies and discussions of religious, political and secular pilgrimage across the region.

European Cinema after the Wall

European Cinema after the Wall
Author: Leen Engelen Leen Engelen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1442229608

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union. In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration. Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.