European Cinema and Television: Cultural Policy and Everyday Life

271 Pages·2014·5.153 MB·English

by  Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall, Andrew Higson

European Cinema and Television
Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
Series Editors: Andrew Higson, University of York, UK, Ib Bondebjerg,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Caroline Pauwels, Vrije Universiteit
Brussels, Belgium
Advisory Board: Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton, UK, Milly
Buonanno, University of Rome, Italy, Carmina Crusafon, Autonomous
University of Barcelona, Spain, Peter Golding, Northumbria University, UK,
Petra Hanakova, Charles University, Czech Republic, Sonja de Leeuw,
University of Utrecht, Netherlands, Tomasz Goban-Klas, University of Krakow,
Poland, Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen, Norway, Michelle Hilmes,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Mette Hjort, Lingnan University,
Hong Kong, Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan, USA, Ewa Mazierska,
University of Central Lancashire, UK, Michael Meyen, University of Munich,
Germany,Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens, Greece,Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, Austria,Monica
Sassatelli, Goldsmiths University of London, UK, Paul Statham, University of
Sussex, UK, Isabelle Veyrat-Masson, Laboratoire Communication et Politique
Paris (LCP-CNRS), France, Patrick Vonderau, University of Stockholm, Sweden,
and William Uricchio, MIT, USA
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EUROPEAN CINEMA IN MOTION
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EUROPEAN CINEMA AND TELEVISION
Cultural Policy and Everyday Life
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European Cinema and
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Cultural Policy and Everyday Life
Edited by
Ib Bondebjerg
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eva Novrup Redvall
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
and
Andrew Higson
University of York, UK
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European cinema and television: cultural policy and everyday life / [edited
by] Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ; Eva Novrup Redvall,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Andrew Higson, University of York, UK.
pages cm—(Palgrave European fi lm and media studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Motion pictures—Europe—History and criticism. 2. Motion pictures—
Social aspects—Europe. 3. Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.
4. Television programs—Europe. 5. Television programs—Social aspects—
Europe. 6. Identity (Psychology) on television. I. Bondebjerg, Ib, editor.
II. Redvall, Eva Novrup. III. Higson, Andrew.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Mediated Cultural Encounters in Europe 1
Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall
Part I Culture, Identity and Everyday Life
1 Narratives of European Identity 25
Monica Sassatelli
2 Film and European Identity: A German Case Study 43
Michael Meyen
3 Sensing National Spaces: Representing the Mundane
in English Film and Television 58
Tim Edensor
Part II Film and Media Policy: Between the National
and the Transnational
4 The European Audiovisual Space: How European
Media Policy Has Set the Pace of Its Development 81
Carmina Crusafon
5 Beyond Borders and into the Digital Era: Future-proofing
European-level Film Support Schemes 102
Sophie De Vinck and Caroline Pauwels
Part III National Cinemas – European Cinemas
6 British Cinema, Europe and the Global Reach
for Audiences 127
Andrew Higson
7 The East Meets the West in Contemporary Eastern
European Films 151
Ewa Mazierska
8 New Voices, New Stories: Migrant Cinema and Television
in Norway 169
Leif Ove Larsen
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vi Contents
Part IV National Television – European Television
9 Italian TV Drama: The Multiple Forms of European
Influence 195
Milly Buonanno
10 Breaking Borders: The International Success of
Danish Television Drama 214
Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall
11 Small Nation/Big Neighbours: Co-producing Stories
in a European Context 239
Diog O’Connell
Index 257
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 EU webpage on the Capital of Culture Initiative 32
1.2 EU webpage on the Capital of Culture Initiative 33
2.1 Agency and structure according to Giddens 46
2.2 Screenshot from Cedric Klapisch’s French filmL’Auberge
Espagnole (2002) 50
2.3 Screenshot from Lars von Trier’s art film Europa (1991) 52
3.1 Screenshot from the film This is Englandd(2006) 64
3.2 Screenshot fromFish Tank (2009) 69
3.3 Screenshot from the long-running series Coronation Streett,
(1960–present) 71
4.1 Screenshot from the EBU website, announcing the new
European crime seriesThe Team 83
5.1 Screenshot from Creative Europe webpage 105
5.2 Screenshot from Creative Europe webpage 115
6.1 Screenshot fromThe King’s Speech(2010) 133
6.2 Screenshot fromIn Bruges (2008) 144
7.1 Screenshot fromEssential Killingg(2010) 160
7.2 Screenshot fromThe Temptation of St. Tonyy(2009) 165
8.1 Screenshot fromImport/Exportt(2005) 174
8.2 Screenshot fromImport/Exportt(2005) 178
8.3 Screenshot fromWinterlandd (2007) 179
9.1 Picture fromA Doctor in the Family. Courtesy RAI 204
9.2 Still fromThe Cesaronis. Courtesy of Mediaset and Publispei 205
10.1 Screenshot fromThe Killinggg, season two, episode two 218
10.2 Screenshot fromBorgen 233
10.3 Screenshot from the opening episode of Borgen, season two 234
11.1 Screenshot fromLove/Hate, season five, episode three 252
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viii List of Figures and Tables
Tables
1.1 Models of European identity 28
1.2 List of European cities of culture and EU resolutions
behind this initiative 34
4.1 Breakdown of European Union admissions by the origin of
films (%) (2000–2010) 89
4.2 Number of film funds in Europe 90
4.3 EU audiovisual policy: instruments for external action
(2008–2014) 92
4.4 Financial resources for developing the external dimension
of EU audiovisual policy 95
8.1 Box office numbers from the Lumiere database on films
released in Europe 185
9.1 Audience share for European co-productions in the 2000s 202
Notes on Contributors
Ib Bondebjerg is Professor of Film and Media Studies, Department of
Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.
He was chairman of the Danish Film Institute (1997–2000) and of the
Center for Modern European Studies (2008–2011). He was co-director of
the research projects Changing Media – Changing Europe (2000–2005)
and Media and Democracy in the Network Society (2002–2006) and he
is presently principal investigator in the European project Mediating
Cultural Encounters on European Screens (MeCETES, 2013–2016). He
has published numerous books and articles on European film and media
culture and he is on the editorial or advisory board of several interna-
tional journals.
Milly Buonannois Professor of Television Studies in the Department of
Communication and Social Research, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’,
and chair of the research programme GEMMA (GEnder and Media
MAtter). She is the founder of the Observatory of Italian Fiction (1988– ),
and was the co-ordinator of the Eurofiction project on the European
television industry (1996–2004), carried out under the aegis of the
European Audiovisual Observatory. Her most recent books are the mon-
ographItalian TV Drama and Beyond: Stories from the Soil, Stories from the
Sea(2012) and the co-editedSAGE Handbook of Television Studies (2014).
Carmina Crusafon is Associate Professor in the Department of
Journalism and Communication Studies at the Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona (UAB) (Spain). She is a researcher in media systems and
audiovisual policies (of the European Union and Latin America). She
teaches media policy in Journalism Bachelor and Master Studies at
the UAB. She is deputy director of the Ibero-American Observatory of
Communication. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of
Leeds, the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, and she has been an invited lecturer in different
Spanish and Latin American universities.
Sophie De Vinck is currently a case handler at the European Commission’s
DG Competition. Before that, she was senior researcher within the cen-
tre for Studies on Media Information and Telecommunication (SMIT)
at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She successfully defended her doctoral
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