Luisa Passerini & Jo Labanyi 
Europe and Love in Cinema [EPUB ebook] 

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of ‘Europeanness’ that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more ‘European’ than others. Through the international distribution process, these films in turn engage with ideas of Europe from both outside and within, while some, treated extensively in this volume, even offer alternative models of love. A bracing collection of essays from top film scholars,
Europe and Love in Cinema demonstrates the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores multiple models of love within Europe’s frontiers.

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Introduction


 


Part One: Disciplinary and Historical Contexts






Chapter 1: Cinema and Academia: Of Objects of Love and Objects of Study– Thomas Elsaesser


Chapter 2: For Love or Money: Transnational Developments in European Cinema in the 1920s – Andrew Higson


Chapter 3: Love beyond the Nation: Cosmopolitanism and Transational Desire in Cinema – Tim Bergfelder


 


Part Two: Impossible Loves






Chapter 4: Love in two British films of the late silent period: Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927) and Piccadilly (E.A. Dupont, 1929) – Laura Mulvey


Chapter 5: La dame de Malacca or Eurocentrism’s dream of omnipotence – Luisa Passerini


Chapter 6: Love and colonial ambivalence in Spanish Africanist cinema of the early Franco dictatorship – Jo Labanyi


 


Part Three: Movements in Time-Space






Chapter 7: The love-lives of others: reconstructing German national identity in postwar and post-unification cinema – Seán Allan


Chapter 8: Exiled memories: transnational memoryscapes in recent French cinema – Liliana Ellena


Chapter 9: Migration, attachment, belonging: filming the Mediterranean in Spain and Italy – Enrica Capussotti


 


Part Four: Cultural Reinscriptions






Chapter 10: Luis Buñuel and explosive love in southern Europe – Luisa Accati


Chapter 11: Love and belonging in Western – Lucy Mazdon


Chapter 12: A conflicted passion: European film – Karen Diehl


 

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Luisa Passerini is professor of cultural history and cofounder of the Interdepartmental Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Turin. Jo Labanyi is professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University. Karen Diehl earned a Ph D from the European University Institute in Florence and now works in film.