The MEDIA Programme: Framing European Cinema
Abstract
The article is a chapter 2 from the book Euro-Visions. Europe in Contemporary Cinema (2016) by Mariana Liz. It opens with an overview of the key issues in contemporary European cinema, as well as the main features of the European film industry, setting the context for the analysis of the EU MEDIA programme. After describing the emergence, main goals and initiatives of MEDIA, the author reports on a discussion about the promotion of this EU programme. At stake here is the way in which the EU’s vision of European cinema is projected to a wider public. Liz also looks at how the idea of Europe frames institutional discussions of the audio-visual industries and examines fiction features released with the support of MEDIA. Through close textual analysis, the author highlights ideas of Europe in the form and content of these films. While over 200 films are considered, case studies include the films that are “advertised” most frequently by the European Commission, for instance, in memos and press releases. Case studies originate from as many different European nations as possible, including “big” and “small” countries and audio-visual industries, and belong to different genres, comprising both big-budget and independent productions.
- The text is a translation of the chapter The MEDIA Programme: Framing European Cinema from the book by Mariana Liz Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema. © Mariana Liz, 2016, Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema, Bloomsbury Academic – An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., New York – London – Oxford – New Delhi – Sydney.
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Keywords:
European film industry, European Union MEDIA programme, European CommissionReferences
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Authors
Mariana Lizkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lisbon Portugal
Doktorat obroniła w 2012 r. na King’s College London. Jest autorką książki Euro-Visions. Europe in Contemporary Cinema (2016), redaktorką tomu Portugal’s Global Cinema (2017) i współredaktorką antologii The Europeanness of European Cinema (2015). Obecnie jest stypendystką w ramach programu podoktorskiego w Instituto de Ciências na Uniwersytecie Lizbońskim. Jej projekt, finansowany przez Portugalskie Ministerstwo Nauki, dotyczy badań nad europejskimi miastami, kinem i turyzmem.
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