European Cinema Face To Face With Hollywood

A Collection Of Essays By The Acclaimed Film Scholar Thomas Elsaesser, Written Between 1968 And 2005, Tracks The Crisis Of Contemporary European Cinema, Faced By The Hollywood Giant On The One Hand, And The Collapsing National Cinema Industries On The Other. In The Face Of Renewed Competition From Hollywood Since The Early 1980s And The Challenges Posed To Europes National Cinemas By The Fall Of The Wall In 1989, Independent Filmmaking In Europe Has Begun To Re-invent Itself. European Cinema: Face To Face With Hollywood Re-assesses The Different Debates And Presents A Broader Framework For Understanding The Forces At Work Since The 1960s.