100 years of European cinema Entertainment or

Cinema is entertainment that also communicates a set of values and a vision of the world. This book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ideology, and audiences from the Stalinist musicals of the 1930s through cinematic representations of masculinity under Franco, to recent French films and their Hollywood remakes. It covers film from the former Soviet Union, Germany East and West, Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain, and the relationship between Europe and Hollywood.

Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds.

Alison Smith is Lecturer in French at Keele University.

List of illustrations

vii

List of tables

viii

Notes on contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(10)

Diana Holmes

Alison Smith

PART I Ideologies and cinematic pleasure

But eastward, look, the land is brighter: towards a topography of utopia in the Stalinist musical

11

(16)

Richard Taylor

Entertained by the class enemy: cinema programming policy in the German Democratic Republic

27

(13)

Rosemary Stott

The forbidden films: film censorship in the wake of the Eleventh Plenum

40

(12)

Daniela Berghahn

Sex and subversion in German Democratic Republic cinema: The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973)

52

(12)

Andrea Rinke

The Good Soldier Svejk and after: the comic tradition in Czech film

64

(13)

Peter Hames

Cheaper by the dozen: La gran familia, Francoism and Spanish family comedy

77

(12)

Peter William Evans

Displacing the hero: masculine ambivalence in the cinema of Luis Garcia Berlanga

89

(11)

Parvati Nair

`When you're not a worker yourself...': Godard, the Dziga Vertov Group and the audience

100

(9)

Steve Cannon

Quand une femme n'en est pas une: gendered spectatorship and feminist scopophilia in the early films of Jean-Luc Godard

109

(11)

Eliane Meyer

The fictionalisation of terrorism in West German cinema

120

(13)

Stefan Wolff

PART II Entertainment and its ideologies

Of human bondage and male bonding: male relationships in recent Russian cinema

133

(11)

David Gillespie

Entertainment - but where's the ideology? Truffaut's last films

144

(14)

Diana Holmes

Performance in the films of Agnes Varda

158

(14)

Alison Smith

Singing our song: music, memory and myth in contemporary European cinema

172

(11)

Wendy Everett

Transatlantic crossings: ideology and the remake

183

(12)

Julia Dobson

`Faith in relations between people': Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday and European integration

195

(12)

Peter Kramer

Index

207

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100 years of European cinema Entertainment or ideology?

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