Images of Europe - European Images: Postwar European Cinema and Television Culture

TY - CHAP

T1 - Images of Europe - European Images

T2 - Postwar European Cinema and Television Culture

AU - Bondebjerg, Ib

PY - 2012/9/18

Y1 - 2012/9/18

N2 - The audio-visual culture of Europe right after 1945 was a culture in ashes in a Europe soon to be divided into east and west under the Cold War. It was a Europe where nation-states had to reconstruct and revitalise a cinema culture damaged by war, and where television did not emerge until the 1950s, or in some countries even later. Already during the 1980s, a cultural policy and a policy for film and media was starting to develop, and both the MEDIA programmes (from 1987) and the EURIMAGE programme (from 1988) represented the institutionalisation of support for the diversity of film and media culture in Europe as a whole. This article explores European images in cinema and television culture during the postwar period. It also discusses fascism and new wave cinema in Southern Europe, new wave cinema in Scandinavia and the rise of a modern welfare culture, European media culture and the Communist 'Ice Age', European art television and national fiction series, the transnational power of television, documentary film and television, and digital television and film in European perspective.

AB - The audio-visual culture of Europe right after 1945 was a culture in ashes in a Europe soon to be divided into east and west under the Cold War. It was a Europe where nation-states had to reconstruct and revitalise a cinema culture damaged by war, and where television did not emerge until the 1950s, or in some countries even later. Already during the 1980s, a cultural policy and a policy for film and media was starting to develop, and both the MEDIA programmes (from 1987) and the EURIMAGE programme (from 1988) represented the institutionalisation of support for the diversity of film and media culture in Europe as a whole. This article explores European images in cinema and television culture during the postwar period. It also discusses fascism and new wave cinema in Southern Europe, new wave cinema in Scandinavia and the rise of a modern welfare culture, European media culture and the Communist 'Ice Age', European art television and national fiction series, the transnational power of television, documentary film and television, and digital television and film in European perspective.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - European Integration

KW - Film history, television

KW - European history

KW - Europe after 1945

KW - Film and media policy

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-19-956098-1

SP - 649

EP - 667

BT - The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History

A2 - Stone, Dan

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -