The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map

New European Cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made around the time of the revolutions of 1989 but set in post-World War II Europe, these films grapple with the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Balkans, and a growing sense of historical loss and disenchantment felt across the continent. They represent a period in which national borders became blurred and the.;Cover ; Half title; Series List; Title; Copyright; Contents ; Acknowledgments; 1. Mapping European Cinema in the 1990s; 2. The Dialectic of Landscape in Italian Popular Melodrama; 3. A Conspiracy of Cartographers?; 4. Yugoslavia's Impossible Spaces; 5. Back-Projecting Germany; 6. Toward a Theory of European Space; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.