Continuity and change are the two major trends that mark European
film and media vistas today. While continuity is the result of more
than a century of European film and media tradition, change is
brought about by technological convergence, the evolution of
globalization and commercial markets and of artistic and aesthetic
norms, and the ever-expanding cultural borders of Europe. Bringing
together eighteen research-based analyses on topics as diverse as
Europe itself, Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European
Context presents various accounts of filmic and televisual media,
text and form, mediated politics, media policy, globalization,
diasporic media, multiculturalism and more. The chapters are
grouped into three main sections: Identities, Borders, Industries;
Migration, Space, Transnationality; and Telling Stories: Medium,
Form, Message and Beyond. Employing film studies, critical social
theory and cultural studies and drawing upon technological,
spatial, political economic, sociological and anthropological
approaches, the authors present multidimensional and multi-faceted
depictions of the historical and contemporary factors that have
shaped, and continue to shape, film and media in Europe."Ambitious
in both its intellectual and geographical scope, this volume
provides us with an innovative and original understanding of what
is happening in the new and rapidly changing European cinema scene
- a very welcome intervention in an important cultural
agenda."Kevin Robins, City University, London"Miyase Christensen
and Nezih Erdogan have edited an excellent book on film and media
landscapes in the "new" Europe of the early twenty-first century.
Incorporating eighteen individual chapters in three parts, the book
re-examines what "European" media and cinema means during a period
in which the geographical and cultural boundaries of "Europe" are
still shifting, the media themselves are deeply influenced by the
digital revolution, and audiences for "film" are constantly
re-defining themselves. The book itself offers fresh perceptions
across a range of different fields and should be of interest to all
those fascinated by current trends in both film and media." Melvyn
Stokes, University College London
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