| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
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Family diversions : French popular cinema and the music-hall / Dudley Andrew -- La ley del deseo : a gay seduction / José Arroyo -- Immigrant cinema : national cinema, the case of beur film / Christian Bosséno -- Images of 'provence' : ethnotypes and stereotypes of the south in French cinema / François de la Bretèque -- Author, actor, showman : Reinhold Schünzel and Hallo Caesar! / Thomas Elsaesser -- 'We were born to turn a fairy-tale into reality' : Svetlȳĭ put' and the Soviet musical of the 1930s and 1940s / Maria Enzensberger -- Studying popular taste : British historical films in the 1930s / Sue Harper -- Was the cinema fairground entertainment? The birth and role of popular cinema in the Polish territories up to 1908 / Malgorzata Hendrykowska -- The Finn-between : Uuno Turhapuro, Finland's greatest star / Veijo Hietala [and others] -- The inexportable : the case of French cinema and radio in the 1950s / Jean-Pierre Jeancolas -- The other face of death : Barbara Steele and La maschera del demonio / Carol Jenks |
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(cont.) Popular taste : the peplum / Michéle Lagny -- National romanticism and Norwegian silent cinema / Anne Marit Myrstad -- The Atlantic divide / V.F. Perkins -- Early German cinema, melodrama : social drama / Heide Schlüpmann -- 'Film stars do not shine in the sky over Poland' : the absence of popular cinema in Poland / Anita Skwara -- Valborgsmässoafton : melodrama and gender politics in Swedish cinema / Tytti Soila -- A forkful of westerns : industry, audiences and the Italian western / Christopher Wagstaff |
| Summary |
Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and ethnic identities that complicate th equestoin of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Europe. THrough their individual studies, the contribuitots ehr oven up a new area of study, using the medium of film to fucus a wider discussion of popular European culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Europe -- Congresses
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Unterhaltungsfilm
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Films.
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dyer, Richard, 1945-
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Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781135084967 |
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1135084963 |
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9780203388624 |
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0203388623 |
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9781135085100 |
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1135085102 |
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9781135085032 |
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113508503X |
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