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This Handbook offers new and previously unexplored comparative approaches to the field of New Cinema History. The volume brings together contributions focussing on historical and contemporary comparative case studies of cinema-going practices, cinema distribution, exhibition and reception from a global perspective. Engaging with a wealth of empirical and archive-based sources the volume explores a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches. This Handbook is a key addition to debates on the relationship between film industry and cinema-going practices across different political and cultural geographical dimensions. Daniela Treveri Gennari is Professor of Cinema Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project European Cinema Audiences. Entangled Histories, Shared Memories. Her publications include, among others, the edited volume Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context (Palgrave, 2018). Lies Van de Vijver is Co-Investigator and project manager of European Cinema Audiences. She edited Mapping Movie Magazines: Digitization, Periodicals and Cinema History (Palgrave, 2020) with Daniel Biltereyst, runner-up for BAFTSS Best Edited Collection 2021. Pierluigi Ercole is Associate Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK. He is Co-Investigator for the AHRC-funded project European Cinema Audiences. Entangled Histories, Shared Memories. Chapter(s) “Chapter 8.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Motion pictures --- History. --- Appreciation. --- Motion pictures. --- Motion picture industry. --- Television broadcasting. --- Global Film and TV. --- Film and TV History. --- Film and Television Industry.

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“This collection accomplishes the difficult work of situating the meanings of amputation in their historical contexts, within a gendered and sexual economy organized around shifting power relations. In this way, the book brings a sophisticated analysis rooted in disability studies to the examination of amputation as a signifier and as a material reality.” —Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, USA Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volume draw upon a wide variety of texts, both lesser-known and canonical, across historical periods and language traditions to interrogate the intersections of disability studies with social, political, cultural, and philosophical concerns. Whether focusing on ancient texts by Zhuangzi or Ovid, renaissance drama, folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm, novels or silent film, the chapters in this volume highlight the dialectics of “loss” and “gain” in narratives of amputation to encourage critical dialogue and forge an integrated, embodied understanding of experiences of impairment in which mind and body, metaphor and materiality, theory and politics are considered as interrelated and interacting aspects of disability and ability. Erik Grayson is Associate Professor of English at Northampton Community College, USA. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of English at Wartburg College, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Luther College, USA. He has published essays on J.M. Coetzee, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Don DeLillo, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. Maren Scheurer is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is the author of Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship (2019) and co-editor, with Susan Bainbrigge, of Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter: Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice (2020). With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive co-editor of Philip Roth Studies.

Philosophy --- History of human medicine --- Human medicine --- Telecommunication services --- Film --- Fiction --- Comparative literature --- TV (televisie) --- film --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- literatuur --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- Amputation --- Disabilities in literature. --- Disabilities in motion pictures. --- Amputees --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Comparative literature. --- Fiction. --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Motion pictures. --- Medicine --- Comparative Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Medical Humanities. --- Global Film and TV. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy.

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This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History.

Sex. --- Culture. --- Motion pictures. --- Literature. --- Feminism. --- Feminist theory. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Feminism and literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Global Film and TV. --- World Literature. --- Feminism and Feminist Theory. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Sex role in literature. --- Sex role in popular culture. --- Violence in literature. --- Violence in popular culture. --- Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature. --- Vulnerability (Personality trait) in popular culture. --- Women --- Women in literature. --- Women in popular culture. --- Violence against.

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This volume explores the notion of German cinema as both a national and increasingly transnational entity. It brings together chapters that analyse the international circuits of development and distribution that shape the emerging films as part of a contemporary “German cinema”, the events and spectacles that help frame and re-frame national cinemas and their discoverability, and the well-known filmmakers who sit at the vanguard of the contemporary canon. Thereby, it explores what we understand as German cinema today and the many points where this idea of national cinema can be interrogated, expanded and opened up to new readings. At the heart of this interrogation is a keen awareness of the technological, social, economic and cultural changes that have an impact on global cinemas more broadly: new distribution channels such as streaming platforms and online film festivals, and audience engagement that transcends national borders as well as the cinema space. International film production and financing further heightens the transnational aspects of cinema, a quality that is often neglected in marketing and branding of the filmic product. With particular focus on film festivals, this volume explores the tensions between the national and transnational in film, but also in the events that sit at the heart of global cinema culture. It includes contributions from filmmakers, cultural managers and other professionals in the field of film and cinema, as well as scholarly contributions from academics researching popular culture, film, and events in relation to Germany. .

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology --- Telecommunication services --- Mass communications --- Film --- sociologie --- TV (televisie) --- communicatie --- cultuur --- film --- massamedia --- Motion pictures, German. --- Motion picture industry --- Film festivals. --- German motion pictures --- Foreign films --- Film and video festivals --- Motion picture festivals --- Moving-picture festivals --- Video and film festivals --- Performing arts festivals --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Mass media. --- Motion pictures. --- Culture --- Communication. --- Media Sociology. --- Global Film and TV. --- Cultural Studies. --- Film Studies. --- Media and Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Cultural studies --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Study and teaching. --- History and criticism

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Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text—as well as other media—and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.

Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature   . --- Motion pictures. --- Cities and towns—History. --- Historiography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Literary Theory. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Global Cinema and TV. --- Urban History. --- Memory Studies. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Criticism --- Historiography --- History and criticism --- Cities and towns in literature. --- City and town life in literature. --- Space perception in literature. --- Cities and towns in mass media. --- Literature --- Literature. --- Collective memory. --- World Literature. --- Global Film and TV. --- Urban Sociology. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Theory