European Cinema and Television

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Mediated Cultural Encounters in Europe

   1. Introduction: Mediated Cultural Encounters in Europe

      • Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall

      Pages 1-22

3. Culture, Identity and Everyday Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Narratives of European Identity

      • Monica Sassatelli

      Pages 25-42

   3. Film and European Identity: A German Case Study

      • Michael Meyen

      Pages 43-57

   4. Sensing National Spaces: Representing the Mundane in English Film and Television

      • Tim Edensor

      Pages 58-77

4. Film and Media Policy: Between the National and the Transnational

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. The European Audiovisual Space: How European Media Policy Has Set the Pace of Its Development

      • Carmina Crusafon

      Pages 81-101

   3. Beyond Borders and into the Digital Era: Future-proofing European-level Film Support Schemes

      • Sophie De Vinck, Caroline Pauwels

      Pages 102-123

5. National Cinemas — European Cinemas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. British Cinema, Europe and the Global Reach for Audiences

      • Andrew Higson

      Pages 127-150

   3. The East Meets the West in Contemporary Eastern European Films

      • Ewa Mazierska

      Pages 151-168

   4. New Voices, New Stories: Migrant Cinema and Television in Norway

      • Leif Ove Larsen

      Pages 169-191

6. National Television — European Television

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Italian TV Drama: The Multiple Forms of European Influence

      • Milly Buonanno

      Pages 195-213

   3. Breaking Borders: The International Success of Danish Television Drama

      • Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall

      Pages 214-238

   4. Small Nation/Big Neighbours: Co-producing Stories in a European Context

      • Diog O’Connell

      Pages 239-256

7. Back Matter

   Pages 257-265

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This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and collaboration, and of how cultural products circulate across national borders. The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special kind of cultural encounter with the possibility of facilitating reflections on national differences within Europe and negotiations of what characterizes a national or a European identity respectively.  

• Europe
• film
• television
• heritage
• everyday lives
• media
• cinema

“The essays are all well written, cover a wide range of examples and identify pathways for innovative methodologies and integrative forms of analysis. It is a work of great scholarship and collective endeavor that will be of real value to anyone interested in European cinemas, television, policy, society and culture, and perhaps above all for those, like the book’s editors and authors, interested in the connections across all these domains.” (Jonathan Hardy, Transnational Cinemas, March, 2016)

“It provides data, detailed descriptions of practices and regulative policies as well as some of their consequences in the complex, fragmented, transnational, occasionally successful, but ultimately somewhat disordered, film and television landscape of Europe. … European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life represents an authoritative and significant contribution to the increasingly studied field that is the industries and regulative frameworks of European film and television.” (Olof Hedling, Nordicom Review, Vol. 37 (1), 2016)

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall

• University of York, UK

  Andrew Higson

Ib Bondebjerg is Professor of Film, Media and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was chairman of the Danish Film Institute (1997–2000) and of the Center for Modern European Studies (2008–2011). He has published numerous books and articles on European film and media culture and is on the editorial or advisory board of several international journals.


Eva Novrup Redvall is Associate Professor in Film, Media and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she is also head of the Research Priority Area on Creative Media Industries. She has published widely on film and television production, most recently with her book Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing (2013). 


Andrew Higson is Greg Dyke Professor of Film and Television, and head of the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, at the University of York, UK. He is a specialist in English and British cinema. His books include: Film England (2011), English Heritage, English Cinema (2003) and Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain (1995).

Policies and ethics