Europe and Love in Cinema

Luisa Passerini is professor of cultural history and cofounder of the Interdepartmental Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Turin.Jo Labanyi is professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University.Karen Diehl earned a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and now works in film.

• Introduction Part One: Disciplinary and Historical ContextsChapter 1: Cinema and Academia: Of Objects of Love and Objects of Study– Thomas ElsaesserChapter 2: For Love or Money: Transnational Developments in European Cinema in the 1920s – Andrew HigsonChapter 3: Love beyond the Nation: Cosmopolitanism and Transational Desire in Cinema – Tim Bergfelder Part Two: Impossible LovesChapter 4: Love in two British films of the late silent period: Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927) and Piccadilly (E.A. Dupont, 1929) – Laura MulveyChapter 5: La dame de Malacca or Eurocentrism’s dream of omnipotence – Luisa PasseriniChapter 6: Love and colonial ambivalence in Spanish Africanist cinema of the early Franco dictatorship – Jo Labanyi Part Three: Movements in Time-SpaceChapter 7: The love-lives of others: reconstructing German national identity in postwar and post-unification cinema – Seán AllanChapter 8: Exiled memories: transnational memoryscapes in recent French cinema – Liliana EllenaChapter 9: Migration, attachment, belonging: filming the Mediterranean in Spain and Italy – Enrica Capussotti Part Four: Cultural ReinscriptionsChapter 10: Luis Buñuel and explosive love in southern Europe – Luisa AccatiChapter 11: Love and belonging in Western – Lucy MazdonChapter 12: A conflicted passion: European film – Karen Diehl

'Rewarding and invigorating' – Necsus, Fiona Handyside