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100 Years of European Cinema: Entertainment or Ideology?

100 Years of European Cinema: Entertainment or Ideology?

Smith, Alison
Holmes, Diana

Paperback

Film Studies

ISBN10: 0719058724
ISBN13: 9780719058721
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Dec 21 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.58
Language: English

Cinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. From its beginnings more than a century ago, European cinema has dealt with the tension between these two functions in a variety of ways: at the extremes, dictatorial regimes have sweetened the pill of ideology with the sugar of entertainment. Meanwhile, spectators have persisted in seeking out, above all, the pleasure film can provide.

Now available again in paperback, this book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ideology and audiences in European film, through studies that range from the Stalinist musicals of the 1930s, to cinematic representations of masculinity under Franco, to recent French films and their Hollywood remakes.

Diverse and entertaining, this study is addressed to students of film - especially French, German, Russian or Spanish - and to those readers and academics interested in both the history of cinema and in European culture.

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