Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which lovein its broadest senseis portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of Europeanness that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more European than others. Through the international distribution process, these films in turn engage with ideas of Europe from both outside and within, while some, treated extensively in this volume, even offer alternative models of love. A bracing collection of essays from top film scholars, Europe and Love in Cinema demonstrates the centrality of desire to film narrative and explores multiple models of love within Europe's frontiers.
Introduction Part One: Disciplinary and Historical Contexts Chapter 1: Cinema and Academia: Of Objects of Love and Objects of Study- Thomas Elsaesser Chapter 2: For Love or Money: Transnational Developments in European Cinema in the 1920s - Andrew Higson Chapter 3: Love beyond the Nation: Cosmopolitanism and Transational Desire in Cinema - Tim Bergfelder Part Two: Impossible Loves Chapter 4: Love in two British films of the late silent period: Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927) and Piccadilly (E.A. Dupont, 1929) - Laura Mulvey Chapter 5: La dame de Malacca or Eurocentrism's dream of omnipotence - Luisa Passerini Chapter 6: Love and colonial ambivalence in Spanish Africanist cinema of the early Franco dictatorship - Jo Labanyi Part Three: Movements in Time-Space Chapter 7: The love-lives of others: reconstructing German national identity in postwar and post-unification cinema - Sean Allan Chapter 8: Exiled memories: transnational memoryscapes in recent French cinema - Liliana Ellena Chapter 9: Migration, attachment, belonging: filming the Mediterranean in Spain and Italy - Enrica Capussotti Part Four: Cultural Reinscriptions Chapter 10: Luis Bunuel and explosive love in southern Europe - Luisa Accati Chapter 11: Love and belonging in Western - Lucy Mazdon Chapter 12: A conflicted passion: European film - Karen Diehl
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