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European Cinema after 1989
Cultural Identity and
Transnational Production
Luisa Rivi
European Cinema after 1989: Cultural Identity and Transnational Production
Copyright © Luisa Rivi, 2007.
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First published in 2007 by
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ISBN-10: 0-230-60024-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60024-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rivi, Luisa, 1958–
European cinema after 1989: cultural identity and transnational production / by Luisa
Rivi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Motion pictures—Europe—History. I. Title.
ISBN 0-230-60024-7
2007
—dc22 2007013922
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To my father, the first Europeanist, and my mother.
Per mio padre, il primo Europeista, e mia madre.
CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: For an Imperfect Europe 1
I Europeanism And and Its Discontents 11
1 The Political Discourse around the European Union: 13
A Supranational Europe
2 The Return of the Repressed: 39
European Cinema and the New Coproductions
II In Search of Unlost Narratives 75
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