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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Austin , Angelos KoutsourakisPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474448505ISBN 10: 147444850 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 31 July 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"A timely contribution to important debates arising in Europe and contemporary film about intersectional forms of marginality and discrimination [...] this book is a welcome addition to the scholarship about the complexity of contemporary film.--Mariana Liz, Universidade de Lisboa ""Studies in European Cinema"" This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film's unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety.--Anik� Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema's thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring.--Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest ""Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020"" The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland.--Claudia Kotte ""Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021""" Author InformationThomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Angelos Koutsourakis is an Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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