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Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe’s urban life and cinema, and shows how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book engages with diverse films, including ''Luna Park'', ''Run, Lola, Run'', ''Trainspotting'', ''Wonderland'', and many more. It tackles the issues about postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities over the last two decades under the effects of political change, from the postcommunist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London.
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To Gifford and Kamila, to Tom and Alice, with love The great cities are false Jean-Luc Godard
FROM MOSCOW TO MADRID Postmodern Cities, European Cinema Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli
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Contents
List of Illustrations General Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgements Introduction
vii ix xi
From the USA to Europe: Development of a New City
Part One: Old Europe Old Europe’s Cities: Between Tradition and Transition Stratified Madrid: Layers of Realism and Artifice in Almodóvar’s Cinema A Present and a True City? Naples in Mario Martone’s Cinema Marseilles: Intersection, Fragment, Ruin
Part Two: Postcommunist Europ