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Abstract
Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love - in its broadest sense - is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of 'Europeanness' that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more 'European' than others. Through the international distribution process, these films engage with ideas of Europe from both outside and within, while some, treated extensively in this volume, offer alternative models of love. A bracing collection of essays from top film scholars, Europe and Love in Cinema demonstrates the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores multiple models of love within Europe's frontiers.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| FrontCover | FC | ||
| Half-title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| List of illustrations | vii | ||
| Introduction | Sec1:1 | ||
| Part I - Disciplinary and historical contexts | Sec1:25 | ||
| Chapter 1: Cinema and academia: of objects of love and objects of study | Sec1:27 | ||
| Chapter 2: For love or money: transnational developments in European cinema in the 1920s | Sec1:43 | ||
| Chapter 3: Love beyond the nation: cosmopolitanism and transnational desire in cinema | Sec1:59 | ||
| Part II - Impossible loves | Sec1:85 | ||
| Chapter 4: Love in two British films of the late silent period: Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927) and Piccadilly (E.A. Dupont, 1929) | Sec1:87 | ||
| Chapter 5: La dame de Malacca or Eurocentrism's dream of omnipotence | Sec1:101 | ||
| Chapter 6: Love and colonial ambivalence in Spanish Africanist cinema of the early Franco dictatorship | Sec1:127 | ||
| Part III - Movements in time-space | Sec1:151 | ||
| Chapter 7: The love-lives of others: reconstructing German national identity in postwar and post-unification cinema | Sec1:153 | ||
| Chapter 8: Exiled memories: transnational memoryscapes in recent French cinema | Sec1:171 | ||
| Chapter 9: Migration, attachment, belonging: filming the Mediterranean in Spain and Italy | Sec1:189 | ||
| Part IV - Cultural re-inscriptions | Sec1:205 | ||
| Chapter 10: Luis Buñuel and explosive love in southern Europe | Sec1:207 | ||
| Chapter 11: Love and belonging in Western | Sec1:225 | ||
| Chapter 12: A conflicted passion: European film | Sec1:239 | ||
| Notes on contributors | Sec1:263 | ||
| Index | Sec1:267 | ||
| BackCover | BC |