European Cinema After 1989 » (First Edition)

Luisa Rivi holds a Ph.D. in Cinema-Television from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She has taught extensively on European cinema/s, world cinema and film theory at Loyola Marymount University, California State University Long Beach, and the University of Southern California, where she has been awarded a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship. She has edited a special issue for the film journal Spectator entitled “Quo Vadis, European Cinema?”

The book examines cinema in post-1989 Europe by looking at how the new post-Cold War cinematographic co-productions articulate the political and cultural objectives of a new Europe as they redefine a European identity.

The Political Discourse Around the European Union: A Supranational Europe
• The Return of the Repressed: European Cinema and the New Cinematographic Coproductions
• Nostalgia as a Weak Utopia for Europe
• Underground and the Balkanization of History * Postcolonial Europe * A Global European Cinema