This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the political debate over the last two centuries? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a 'fortress Europe'?

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GILL ALLWOOD Senior Lecturer in French, Nottingham Trent University SUSAN BASSNETT Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick and Professor in the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies ANNA BULL Professor in Italian Studies, University of Bath DAVID COULBY Dean of Faculty of Education and Human Sciences and Professor of Education Sciences, Bath Spa University College PETER HUMPHREYS Reader in Government at Manchester University and Fellow of the European Institute for the Media ROSALIND MARSH Professor of Russian Studies, Bath University PAMELA MOORES Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the School of Languages and European Studies, Aston University MURRAY PRATT Teaches in the Department of French Studies at Warwick University KEITH READER Professor of French, University of Newcastle GRAHAM ROBERTS Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Surrey ALISON SMITH Lecturer in French, Keele University CHRIS WARNE Lecturer in French Studies, Keele University STEPHEN WEBBER Lecturer in International Security at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Holmes, E.Kolinsky, M.Crook & J.Andrew PART I: FILM Belgian Film Comedy and National Identity; K.Reader Double Lives: Europe and Identity in the Later Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski; G.Roberts Hitmen, Hate and Grosse Fatigue : The Search for the French Blockbuster; A.Smith PART II: MEDIA ISSUES Regulation for Media Pluralism: Issues in Ownership and Competition; P.Humphreys The European 'Goal' and the Popular Press; P.Moores PART III: GENDER AND IDENTITY Representations of Feminism in France: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and Post-Feminism; G.Allwood Reflections on Gender Issues in Contemporary Europe; S.Bassnett AIDS Prevention, Gay Identity and National Homophobia in France; M.Pratt PART IV: WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN SOCIETIES Class, Gender and Voting in Italy; A.Bull Women, Work and Family in Post-Communist Germany; E.Kolinsky Women in Russia and the Former USSR: Politics, Society and Culture; R.Marsh PART V: YOUTH AND EDUCATION Warfare by Other Means: Unity and Fracture in European Education; D.Coulby Transitional Affinities in the European Context: The Case of Contemporary French Youth Culture; C.Warne Russia's Identity Crisis: Its Effect on the Schools and the Young; S.Webber Index