Europe and the European Dream in the film arts. An analysis of the impact of the European cinema within its own territory
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.vi21.10001Keywords:
Europe, European Films, European Dream, Representation Studies, UNICAbstract
This paper investigates the impact of European film productions within their own territory. To this end, the representations of the idea of ??Europe and of the European Dream in the most watched films in Europe have been examined. Also analysed are representations of exclusively national realities within Europe, as well as those outside the European space but still consumed within the European film market.
The main research goal aims at finding out whether the optimistic coordinates pointed out by Rifkin in 2004 on the strength of the European Dream have had, more than a decade later, an impact on the cinema that is consumed within Europe. The investigation triangulates between quantitative content analysis of the annual reports of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) from 2015 to 2019; and narrative analysis, which seeks to shed qualitative light on the titles studied, especially those that address European national realities, the notion of Europe itself, or the idea of the European Dream.
The results ratify the main hypothesis, confirming that the representations of Europe and of the European Dream are barely represented in the films that Europeans watch the most.
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