Popular European Cinema

Popular European Cinema

Examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European country are seldom successful elsewhere.

Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender, and ethnic identities that complicate the question of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Europe.

Through their individual studies, the contributors open up a new area of study, using the medium of film to focus a wider discussion of popular European culture.