The book examines cinema in post-1989 Europe by looking at how the new post-Cold War cinematographic co-productions articulate the political and cultural objectives of a new Europe as they redefine a European identity.

Autorentext
Luisa Rivi is Lecturer of Contemporary European Cinema at the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California.

Inhalt
The Political Discourse Around the European Union: A Supranational Europe * The Return of the Repressed: European Cinema and the New Cinematographic Coproductions * Nostalgia as a Weak Utopia for Europe * Underground and the Balkanization of History * Postcolonial Europe * A Global European Cinema