Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema

James Harvey is an independent scholar. He is the author of Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema (forthcoming).

• 1. Introduction: On the Visual Cultures of the New Nationalisms, James Harvey.- 2. The ‘Liberal Left’ Response to 21st Century Nationalism: Le Week-end (2013) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), John White.- 3. From Down Terrace to High-Rise: the ‘unreal estate’ cinema of Ben Wheatley, William Brown.- 4. Approaches to Othered Identities and Spaces in French Cinema, Şirin Fulya Erensoy.- 5. Documenting the Charlie Hebdo Tragedy, Hugo Frey.- 6. Diasporic Belgian Cinema: transnational and transcultural approaches to Molenbeek and Matonge in Black, Jamie Steele.- 7. The Freedom to Make Racial Jokes: Satires on Nationalism and Multicultural Comedies in Dutch Cinema, Peter Verstraten.- 8. Building Bridges: Fatih Akin and the Cinema of Intercultural  Dialogue, Owen Evans.- 9. “Kapitalismus tötet”: Liquid national identities in the cinema of the Berlin School, Anna Batori.- 10. Resistance Against Itself: Austrian Cinema’s Responses to the Far-right, Nikhil Sathe.- 11. Frivolity and Place Branding in Martínez Lázaro’s ‘Nationalist Comedies’, Alfredo Martínez-Expósito.- 12. After the Crisis: Europe and Nationhood in 21st Century Portuguese Cinema, Mariana Liz.