Overview

Now more than ever, the idea of Europe as grounded in a shared cultural heritage cannot be taken for granted. For all its diversity, complexity and internal tensions, Europe remains a powerful economic and political superstate. But it is one in crisis, where the postwar social democratic consensus has collapsed, the failings of neoliberalism have led to widespread austerity, and extremism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise. This collection of original essays considers filmmakers' engagements with pressing issues of the moment. Taking a long view of the crisis and considering geopolitical changes that took place towards the end of the 20th century, this book examines European cinema's response to the economic, political and social crises that afflict Europe in the present.

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The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland. -- Claudia Kotte * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021 * The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland. -- Claudia Kotte * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021 * The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema’s thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring. -- Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest * Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020 * The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema’s thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring. -- Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest * Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020 * A timely contribution to important debates arising in Europe and contemporary film about intersectional forms of marginality and discrimination [...] this book is a welcome addition to the scholarship about the complexity of contemporary film. -- Mariana Liz, Universidade de Lisboa * Studies in European Cinema * This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film’s unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety. -- Anikó Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film’s unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety. -- Anikó Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

"A timely contribution to important debates arising in Europe and contemporary film about intersectional forms of marginality and discrimination [...] this book is a welcome addition to the scholarship about the complexity of contemporary film.--Mariana Liz, Universidade de Lisboa ""Studies in European Cinema"" This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film's unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety.--Anik� Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema's thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring.--Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest ""Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020"" The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland.--Claudia Kotte ""Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021"""

Author Information

Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020). Angelos Koutsourakis is Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (2013) and the co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020), and The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015).

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