Spaces in European Cinema

Spaces in European CinemaHow is space constructed in European Cinema? What ideological or artistic concerns does space "narrate"? This is one of the few studies of its kind to explore such questions and the only text to fully address the unique spatial power of the cinema. Coveing films of the 1920s right up to those of the 1990s; racial, social and gendered 'mappings' of the city and its private and public spaces are considered from a fresh perspective. The volume includes

There are few figures as captivating as the antihero: the character we can't help but root for

a large section on postcolonialism

This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process

Swedish Cops is just as thrilling as the novels and films it analyses

What is gained when a national theater is born

refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages

character and comedy through its cinematic identity

these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Central Asia

all used as a reflective framework to illuminate case studies from a wide range of teaching artist practice

From a comparative east-west perspective

on the other hand

here reproduces three prominent examples of the company’s early work and contextualizes these plays in the wider tradition and recent history of British political theatre