European Cinema and Television [electronic resource] : Cultural Policy and Everyday Life /
Bondebjerg, Ib.editor.
Novrup Redvall, Eva.editor.
Higson, Andrew.editor.
This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and collaboration, and of how cultural products circulate across national borders. The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special kind of cultural encounter with the possibility of facilitating reflections on national differences within Europe and negotiations of what characterizes a national or a European identity respectively. .
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and collaboration, and of how cultural products circulate across national borders. The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special kind of cultural encounter with the possibility of facilitating reflections on national differences within Europe and negotiations of what characterizes a national or a European identity respectively. .
Introduction: mediated cultural encounters in Europe -- Culture, identity and everyday life. Monica Sassatelli: Narratives of European identity -- Michael Meyen: Film and European identity: A German case study -- Tim Edensor: Sensing national spaces: representing mundane spaces in English film and television -- Film and media policy: between the national and the transnational. Carmina Crusafon: The European audiovisual space: how European media policy has set the pace of its development -- Sophie de Vinck and Caroline Pauwels: Beyond borders and into the digital era: future-proofing European-level film support schemes -- National cinemas, European cinemas. Andrew Higson: British cinema, Europe and the global reach for audiences -- Ewa Mazierska: The east meets the west in contemporary Eastern European films -- Leif Ove Larsen: New voices, new stories: migrant cinema and television in Norway -- National television, European television. Milly Buonanno: Italian tv drama: the multiple forms of European influence -- Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall: Breaking borders: the international success of Danish television drama -- Diog O'Connell: Small nation,  big neighbours: co-producing stories in a European context.
Cultural policy.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Motion pictures—History.
Cultural Policy and Politics.
European Cinema and TV.
Screen Studies.
Media Studies.
Directing.
Film History.