Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of LeedsAlison Smith is Head of Film Studies at the University of Liverpool

• Introduction – Diana Holmes & Alison SmithPart I: Ideologies and cinematic pleasure1. But eastward, look, the land is brighter: towards a topography of utopia in the Stalinist musical – Richard Taylor2. Entertained by the class enemy: cinema programing policy in the German Democratic Republic – Rosemary Stott3. The forbidden films: film censorship in the wake of the Eleventh Plenun – Daniela Berghahn4. Sex and subversion in German Democratic Republic cinema: The legend of Paul and Paula (1973) – Andrea Rinke5. The Good Soldier Švejk and after: the comic tradition in Czech film – Peter Hames6. Cheaper by the dozen: La gran familia, Francoism and Spanish family comedy – Peter William Evans7. Displacing the hero: masculine ambivalence in the cinema of Luis García Berlanga – Parvati Nair8.'When you're not a worker yourself...': Godard, the Dziga Vertov Group and the audience – Steve Cannon9. Quand une femme n'en est pas une: gendered spectatorship and feminist scopophilia in the early films of Jean-Luc Godard – Eliane Meyer10. The fictionalisation of terrorism in West German cinema – Stefan WolffPart II: Entertainment and its ideologies11. Of human bondage and male bonding: male relationships in recent Russian cinema – David Gillespie12. Entertainment – but where's the ideology? Truffaut's last films – Diana Holmes13. Performance in the films of Agnès Varda – Alison Smith14. Singing our song: music, memory and myth in contemporary European cinema – Wendy Everett15. Transatlantic crossings: ideology and the remake – Julia Dobson16. 'Faith in relations between people': Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday and European integration – Peter KrämerIndex

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