Bloomsbury From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (Cinema and Society)

About the Author Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology (co-edited with Lars Kristensen, 2018), Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018), Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm (2016) and Relocating Popular Music (co-edited with Georgina Gregory, 2015). Her recent monograph on popular electronic music in Vienna is forthcoming in 2019. Mazierska's work has been translated into over twenty languages. She is also principal editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema.Laura Rascaroliis Senior Lecturer and Co-director, Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (2009) and, with Ewa Mazierska, of From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities, Postmodern Cinema (2003), The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (2004) and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (2006). She has edited the volumes The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations (2010), with Patrick O'Donovan, and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (2011), with John David Rhodes. Product Description Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this lively and accessible book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema and shows how European films represent the cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the text engages with diverse films, including "Luna Park", "Run, Lola, Run", "Trainspotting", "Wonderland" and many more. It tackles the issues of postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities since the 1980s under the effects of political change, from the post-communist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London. Review Film & Film Culture: "The authors obviously have a considerable linguistic awareness, their research is wide and their allusions to other film from European and American cinema is lucid". Film Quarterly: "approachable...illuminating"