Overview
- Explores how audiences in contemporary Europe engage with films from other European countries
- Draws on admissions data, surveys, and focus group discussions that go beyond traditional textual analysis
- Case-studies range from mainstream movies like Skyfall to more middlebrow and arthouse titles, such as Volver
Part of the book series: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies (PEFMS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores how audiences in contemporary Europe engage with films from other European countries. It draws on admissions data, surveys, and focus group discussions from across the continent to explain why viewers are attracted to particular European films, nationalities, and genres, including action-adventures, family films, animations, biopics, period dramas, thrillers, comedies, contemporary drama, and romance. It also examines how these films are financed, produced, and distributed, how they represent Europe and other Europeans, and how they affect audiences. Case-studies range from mainstream movies like Skyfall, Taken, Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia, and Sammy’s Adventures: A Turtle’s Tale to more middlebrow and arthouse titles, such as The Lives of Others, Volver, Coco Before Chanel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Intouchables, The Angels’ Share, Ida, The Hunt, and Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The study shows that watching European films can sometimes improve people’s understandings of other countries and make them feel more European. However, this is limited by the strong preference for Anglo-American action-adventures that offer few insights into the realities of European life. While some popular European arthouse films explore a wider range of nationalities, social issues, and historical events, these mainly appeal to urban-dwelling graduates. They can also sometimes accentuate tensions between Europeans instead of bringing them together. The book discusses what these findings mean for the European film industry, audiovisual policy, and scholarship on transnational and European cinema. It also considers how surveys, focus groups, databases and other methods that go beyond traditional textual analysis can offer new insights into our understanding of film.
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About the author
Huw D. Jones is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He previously worked on ‘Mediating Cultural Encounters through European Screens’ (MeCETES), a collaborative project on the transnational production, distribution and reception of European film and television drama, funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational European Cinema
Book Subtitle: Representation, Audiences, Identity
Authors: Huw D. Jones
Series Title: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44595-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44594-1Published: 04 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44597-2Due: 04 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44595-8Published: 03 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-615X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 268
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Cinema and TV, European Culture, Film/TV Industry