Contemporary European Cinema

This book offers a range of accounts of the state of 'European Cinema' in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the later refugee and humanitarian crisis.

Introduction: Contested Terms, the European Union Contribution and a Financial Crisis
1. National, Transnational and Intermedial Perspectives in post-2008 European Cinema
2. France after the Crisis: Work, Home and Flexible Solidarity in Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (2011) and Ma part du gateau (2011)
3. Spanish Science Fiction Film in Times of Emergency: Crisis and Entrapment in Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial and David and Álex Pastor's The Last Days
4. Narratives of Migration and the Sense of Crisis in post-2008 European Cinema
5. Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands: Re-locating the Crisis in Contemporary Documentaries
6. Post-2008 European Comedies of Crisis: La vida inesperada and Casse-tête chinois
7. Depression as Aesthetic Answer to the Socioeconomic Crisis in Two Days, One Night
8. French and Italian Co-Production Redux: The Fondo Initiative
9. The Contemporary Serbian Film Industry: Issues of Production and Distribution (2008 2017)
10. La jeunesse désaffectée in Contemporary Serbian Cinema
11. The Greek New Wave: Representing Work and Unemployment in Crisis
12. Contemporary Greek and Polish "Best Foreign Language Films" in an Age of Austerity
Index