Screening Europe

Catalog description

Course debates identification of Europe as a political, historical and social entity from the standpoint of cinema. Provides students with an introduction to the notion of 'European cinema' from 1945 to the present-day crisis of Brexit and migration. Explores issues concerning interactions and relations between national and transnational identities, the local and the global, post-colonialism and multiculturalism, migration and nationalism, and Eastern versus Western Europe.