European Cinema and Television

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.

The essays are all well written, cover a wide range of examples and identify pathways for innovative methodologies and integrative forms of analysis. It is a work of great scholarship and collective endeavor that will be of real value to anyone interested in European cinemas, television, policy, society and culture, and perhaps above all for those, like the book's editors and authors, interested in the connections across all these domains. (Jonathan Hardy, Transnational Cinemas, March, 2016)

It provides data, detailed descriptions of practices and regulative policies as well as some of their consequences in the complex, fragmented, transnational, occasionally successful, but ultimately somewhat disordered, film and television landscape of Europe. European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life represents an authoritative and significant contribution to the increasingly studied field that is the industries and regulative frameworks of European film and television. (Olof Hedling, Nordicom Review, Vol. 37 (1), 2016)

Auteur

Ib Bondebjerg is Professor of Film, Media and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was chairman of the Danish Film Institute (1997-2000) and of the Center for Modern European Studies (2008-2011). He has published numerous books and articles on European film and media culture and is on the editorial or advisory board of several international journals.
Eva Novrup Redvall is Associate Professor in Film, Media and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she is also head of the Research Priority Area on Creative Media Industries. She has published widely on film and television production, most recently with her book Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing (2013).
Andrew Higson is Greg Dyke Professor of Film and Television, and head of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, at the University of York, UK. He is a specialist in English and British cinema. His books include: Film England (2011), English Heritage, English Cinema (2003) and Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain (1995).

Contenu

List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Mediated Cultural Encounters in Europe; Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall and Andrew Higson PART I: CULTURE, IDENTITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE 1. Narratives of European Identity; Monica Sassatelli 2. Film, Everyday Life and European Identity; Michael Meyen 3. Sensing National Spaces: Representing Mundane Spaces in English Film and Television; Tim Edensor PART II: FILM AND MEDIA POLICY: BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND THE TRANSNATIONAL 4. The European Audiovisual Space: How European Media Policy has set the Pace of its Development; Carmina Crusafon 5. Beyond Borders and Into the Digital Era: Future-proofing European-level Film Support Schemes; Sophie De Vinck and Caroline Pauwels PART III: NATIONAL CINEMAS EUROPEAN CINEMAS 6. British Cinema, Europe and the Global Reach For Audiences; Andrew Higson 7. The East Meets the West in Contemporary Eastern European Films; Ewa Mazierska 8. New Voices, New Stories: Migrant Cinema and Television in Norway; Leif Ove Larsen PART IV: NATIONAL TELEVISION EUROPEAN TELEVISION 9. Italian TV Drama: The Multiple Forms of European Influence; Milly Buonanno 10. Breaking Borders: The International Success of Danish Television Drama; Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall 11. Small Nation Big Neighbour: Co-Producing Stories in a European Context; Diog O'Connell Index