Table of Contents

1.      Introduction: The Identity of European Cinema - Ingrid Lewis and Laura Canning.- PART I: Discourses.- 2.Nordic Cinema and Ecology: From Representation to Brainprint - Pietari Kääpa.- 3.Migrations in European Documentary - Adam Vaughan.- 4. Questioning the “Normality Drama”: The Representation of Disability - Eleanor Andrews.- 5.Women’s Memories in Holocaust Cinema - Ingrid Lewis.- 6. A Warrior and His Inevitable Defeat in Post-Yugoslav Cinema - Dino Murtić.- PART II: Directions.- 7. Manoel de Oliveira Revisited: Auteur Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century - Ingrid Lewis and Irena Sever Globan.- 8.      From The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu to the Rebirth of Romanian Cinema - Doru Pop.- 9.      Connecting Through Denial: Small Eastern European Cinemas/Mainstream Recognition - Andrea Virginás.- 10. “I choose a film for the story… not for the awards”: Explaining the transnational appeal of contemporary European films - Huw Jones.- 11. A Political Economic Analysis of the Provision of Tax Incentives in Irish Cinema - Laura Canning and Maria O’Brien.-  PART III: Genres.- 12. On the Eve of the Journey: The New European Road Movie - Laura Rascaroli.- 13. Analysing European Neo-Noir Cinema - Begoña Gutiérrez Martínez.- 14. Dystopia Regained: European Science Fiction Film - Mariano Paz.- 15.      Spanish Horror Film - Vicente Rodriguez Ortega and Rubén Romero Santos.- 16.      European Animated Film - Joshua Gulam.

About the Author

Dr. Ingrid Lewis is Lecturer in Film Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, where she teaches modules on European Cinema, Holocaust Film and Popular Culture, Film Theory and World Cinema. She is author of the book Women in European Holocaust Films: Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 
Dr. Laura Canning is Senior Lecturer in Film at the School of Film & Television, Falmouth University, UK. Her most recent work includes contributions to Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema, eds. Silvia Dibeltulo and Ciara Barrett (2018) and Women in Irish Film: Stories and Storytellers, ed. Susan Liddy (forthcoming 2020).