Introduction Part I: A first dialogical cluster: European cinema speaking about Europe: Through explorations of sexualities, identities, migration and the crisis of modernity
1. Post-communist nostalgia in new Bulgarian cinema as a social critique: Mediated post-communist nostalgia
2. Slow Slippy: Still shite being Scottish? T2: Trainspotting and the ‘Scottish European’
3. Beauty and historical understanding in Suspiria and Cold War
4. ‘Europe was built on blood’: Christian Petzold as a European filmmaker
5. Europe wounded? Politics of hope and resistance in Vincent Dieutre’s Orlando Ferito (2013) 6. Lilting and the entangled temporalities of Europe(an cinema)
7. New ways of looking: The case of Maren Ade, Valeska Grisebach and Małgorzata Szumowska 8. The ebbs and flows of girlhood experience across European cinema 9. ‘Dream on princess’: Cultural value, gender politics and the Hungarian film canon through the documentary Pretty Girls
10. European ecology-documentaries as performative exchange 11. Following the flaneur Hulot in Playtime: Soundscape of the new Paris 12. Agata’s (filmmaking) girlfriends: The new wave of women directors in Catalonia 13. The Bourne multiplicity: Quantum Europeanness in the Bourne films (2002-2016) 14. Noisy presences in contemporary European Cinema: Paris est une fete: un film en 18 vagues
15. Gay male sex, carnal knowledge and realism in contemporary French cinema 16. Eden is West, Europe as a magic trick Part II: A second dialogical cluster: Cinema and its industry, national transnationalisms: Actors, studios and cross-overs
17. Omar Sharif: A European Middle Eastern star 18. Weakened nationalism and thickened time: Interrogating the position of Kurdish cinema within European cinema discussions 19. Why small European film industries remake each other’s successes: The case of the Low Countries
20. European collaboration after World War Two: A Tale of Five Cities (M. Tully, R. Marcellini, W. Staudte, G. von Cziffra, E. E. Reinert, 1948-1951) 21. A film ‘highly offensive to our nation’: Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957), censorship, and militaristic representations of post-war Europe 22. Europe comes to Hollywood: The silent era, 1912-1927
23. The non-professional actor in European cinema 24. The (cultural) politics of international co-production: Morocco and Europe 25. British comedy in a foreign light: Looking at the trope of British comedy through the lens of emigre filmmakers 26. Corporate consolidation, artistic conservatism and the persistence of Hollywood: The European film industry, 2006-2020 27. ‘Boyish’ women and female soldiers: British gender disguise comedies between the world wars 28. Fred Zinnemann: A Hollywood director who never leaves Europe Part III: A third dialogical cluster: European cinema and the myth of a unifying and pluralist Europe: Through explorations of borders, genres and histories
29. Framing fundamentalism in contemporary European film 30. Gangster films reloaded: European values and the criminal spectre of late modernity 31. Films at the intersection of Europe, the Balkans and transgender visibility: A sketch map 32. Two-speed economic systems and bipolarity in the European Union: Frontier spaces in Valeska Grisebach’s Western
33. Film topography and national belonging: Hungarian Jewishness and the high mountains 34. Identity and belonging in the bordered spaces of Gatlif’s Indignados (2012) and Geronimo (2014)
35. Accented silences: The aesthetics of displacement in diasporic post-Yugoslav cinema 36. Resisting the traps of hegemony: Variation in contemporary German queer of color cinema 37. Lisbon on film 1980-2020: Locating Europe 38. ‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film
39. Family, memories and borders: Europe in the films of Stephan Komandarev 40. Neoliberal authorship: Auteur theory and European art cinema in 2021 - The example of Paweł Pawlikowski 41. Queer bodies and the death drive: Gender and sexuality in Italian giallo
42. Political discourse and rhetoric: Challenging twenty-first century populism in Chez nous/This Is Our Land 43. Recovering memory, reasserting Europeanness. Modern Convivencia and Hispanotropicalism in Palm Trees in the Snow (2015) and Neckan (2014)