This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the

This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts. It offers a distinctive approach by looking at narrative forms and strategies associated with ci

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical seq

World War II irrevocably shaped culture--and much of cinema--in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about a

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transn