European Cinema

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Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART Ⅰ EUROPEAN CINEMA: AN OVERVIEW Jill Forbes and Sarah Street = 1 1. Economics and Politics = 3 The First World War and After = 3 The 'Silent Salesman' = 6 Pan European Cooperation = 8 Technology and the Birth of the 'Culture lndustries' = 10 Censorship and Propaganda = 11 Protectionism and Subsidy = 17 Modernisation and 'New Cinema'= 21 Cinema and Television = 22 Cinema and the European Union = 24 2. Ideology, Aesthetics and Style = 26 The Rise of National Cinema = 26 Sound and Style =29 The European Film Studios = 34 Hollywood, For and Against: Art Cinema and Popular Lmema = 36 Cinema and the National Question = 40 Popular European Cinema: Genres and Stars = 42 References and Suggestions for Further Reading for Part Ⅰ = 48 PART II CASE STUDIES Bronenosets Potenikin (The Battleship Potemkin) Birgit Beumers = 53 The Lodger Sarah Street = 67 La regle du jeu Jill Forbes = 81 Ossessfone Derek Duncan = 95 Viridiana Annella McDermott = 109 Alice in den Stdten (Alice in the Cites) Stuart Taberner = 121 Carmen Annella McDermott = 133 Good Morning Babilonia Derek Duncan= 145 Das Versprechen (The Promise) Stuart Taberner = 157 La haine Jill Forbes = 171 Trainspotting Sarah Street = 183 Sibirskii tsiriul'nik (The Barber of Siberia) Birgit Beumers = 195 Notes on the Contributors = 207 Index of Film Titles = 208 General Index = 212

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