Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Angelos Koutsourakis
B01=Thomas Austin
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=APFA
Category=APFB
Category=APFG
Category=ATFA
Category=ATFB
Category=ATFG
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
economic crisis
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
European cinema
European filmmakers
film and politics
film and social issues
Language_English
neoliberalism
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781474448505
- Weight: 646g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Now more than ever, the idea of Europe as grounded in a shared cultural heritage cannot be taken for granted. For all its diversity, complexity and internal tensions, Europe remains a powerful economic and political superstate. But it is one in crisis, where the postwar social democratic consensus has collapsed, the failings of neoliberalism have led to widespread austerity, and extremism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise.
This collection of original essays considers filmmakers’ engagements with pressing issues of the moment. Taking a long view of the crisis and considering geopolitical changes that took place towards the end of the 20th century, this book examines European cinema’s response to the economic, political and social crises that afflict Europe in the present.
Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020). Angelos Koutsourakis is Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of Kafkaesque Cinema (2024), Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (2013) and the co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020), and The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015).
