Cinema of Crisis

The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland. -- Claudia Kotte * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021 *
The essays collected by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis in their volume Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe are therefore a timely and welcome attempt to explore filmic approaches to crisis in countries across Europe, from Greece and the Iberian Peninsula to the UK, Estonia and Finland. -- Claudia Kotte * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2021 *
The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema’s thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring. -- Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest * Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020 *
The book Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe is a rich collection of essays that offers an impressive number of different perspectives on contemporary cinema’s thematic and aesthetic approach and on their political analysis of the constant crisis we are enduring. -- Zsolt Gyenge, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest * Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2020 *
A timely contribution to important debates arising in Europe and contemporary film about intersectional forms of marginality and discrimination [...] this book is a welcome addition to the scholarship about the complexity of contemporary film. -- Mariana Liz, Universidade de Lisboa * Studies in European Cinema *
This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film’s unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety. -- Anikó Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
This timely collection showcases how contemporary European filmmakers have used film’s unique capacity to grasp the permanent economic and political crisis that animates neoliberal capitalism in its most intimate, emotional dimensions. Going beyond the lively film readings that lend themselves to teaching European genre films, auteur cinema and documentary today, the book gives us a cinematic diagnosis of a shared structural condition of global anxiety. -- Anikó Imre, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California