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Book SynopsisCinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. European cinema has dealt with the tension between these two functions in a variety of ways. Diverse and entertaining, this book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ideology and audiences in European film.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Diana Holmes & Alison Smith
Part I: Ideologies and cinematic pleasure
1. But eastward, look, the land is brighter: towards a topography of utopia in the Stalinist musical – Richard Taylor
2. Entertained by the class enemy: cinema programing policy in the German Democratic Republic – Rosemary Stott
3. The forbidden films: film censorship in the wake of the Eleventh Plenun – Daniela Berghahn
4. Sex and subversion in German Democratic Republic cinema: The legend of Paul and Paula (1973) – Andrea Rinke
5. The Good Soldier Švejk and after: the comic tradition in Czech film – Peter Hames
6. Cheaper by the dozen: La gran familia, Francoism and Spanish family comedy – Peter William Evans
7. Displacing the hero: masculine ambivalence in the cinema of Luis García Berlanga – Parvati Nair
8.'When you're not a worker yourself...': Godard, the Dziga Vertov Group and the audience – Steve Cannon
9. Quand une femme n'en est pas une: gendered spectatorship and feminist scopophilia in the early films of Jean-Luc Godard – Eliane Meyer
10. The fictionalisation of terrorism in West German cinema – Stefan Wolff
Part II: Entertainment and its ideologies
11. Of human bondage and male bonding: male relationships in recent Russian cinema – David Gillespie
12. Entertainment – but where's the ideology? Truffaut's last films – Diana Holmes
13. Performance in the films of Agnès Varda – Alison Smith
14. Singing our song: music, memory and myth in contemporary European cinema – Wendy Everett
15. Transatlantic crossings: ideology and the remake – Julia Dobson
16. 'Faith in relations between people': Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday and European integration – Peter Krämer
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