Collection of essays, edited by Myrto Konstantarakos and exploring questions of space in European cinema. The essays focus on racial, social and gendered 'mappings' of the city and its private/public spaces with studies of national cinema, genre studies and individual directors. Contents: 1. 'Underground cinema: French visions of the Metro' by David Berry; 2. 'The city as narrative: corporeal Paris in contemporary French cinema [1950s-1990s]' by Susan Hayward; 3. 'Subtext: Paris of Alexandre Trauner' by Keith A. Reader; 4. 'Countryscape/Cityscape and homelessness in Agnes Varda's "Sans toit ni loi" and Leos Carax's "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf"' by Raynalle Udris; 5. 'Anxious spaces in German expressionist films' by Carol Diethe; 6. 'Turkish women on German streets: closure and exposure in transnational cinema' by Deniz Gokturk; 7. 'The sky over Berlin as transcendental space: Wenders, Doblin and the "Angel of History"' by Martin Jesinghausen; 8. 'The Rome of Mussolini: an entrenched stereotype in film' by Leonardo Ciacci; 9. 'Antonioni: space, place, sexuality' by David Forgacs; 10. 'Is Pasolini an urban film-maker?' by Myrto Konstantarakos; 11. 'Transformations of the urban landscape in Spanish film noir' by Alberto Mira; 12. 'The clinic, the street and the garden: municipal film-making in Britain between the wars' by Elizabeth Lebas; 13. 'Centre, periphery and marginality in the films of Alain Tanner' by Lieve Spaas; 14. 'Between the two: dimensions of space in Finnish cinema' by Jukka Sihvonen; 15. 'East meets west: mapping the new Europe in Yury Mamin's "A Window to Paris"' by Graham Roberts.

Item number 93260
Category Book
Type European Cinema
Language English
Country of origin UK
Related people Myrto Konstantarakos (Editor/Author)
David Berry (Author)
Susan Hayward (Author)
Keith A. Reader (Author)
Raynalle Udris (Author)
Carol Diethe (Author)
Deniz Gokturk (Author)
Martin Jesinghausen (Author)
Leonardo Ciacci (Author)
David Forgacs (Author)
Alberto Mira (Author)
Elizabeth Lebas (Author)
Lieve Spaas (Author)
Jukka Sihvonen (Author)
Graham Roberts (Author)