Trifonova, Temenuga;
(2019)
European Identity in Cinema in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization.
[Lecture].
Presented at: On the Ruins and Margins of European Identity in Cinema, Tours, France.
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Abstract
Like the Holocaust, to which it has been (not unproblematically) compared on numerous occasions, the refugee crisis has become crucial to redefining European identity along ethical and humanitarian lines, prompting some scholars to challenge the (Eurocentric) conflation of humanitarian with European values. The translation of humanitarian into European values happens already on the level of film financing, as evidenced by the Council of Europe’s program Euroimages, which supports films promoting humanitarian, universalist values as European, thereby fulfilling the Council of Europe’s mandate to ‘strengthen human rights, racial tolerance and multicultural acceptance.’ Curiously, the ‘ethical turn’ in the arts and humanities, in the form of an “immeasurable debt to the Other,” has been accompanied by a simultaneous turn to self-loathing and self-flagellation. In fact, one of the most fascinating aspects of recent scholarship on European cinema and European identity has been the transformation of the negative rhetoric of decline, decay, self-destruction, trauma, marginalization, Euro-skepticism, and Europhobia into an implicit basis for a shared European identity.
| Type: | Conference item (Lecture) |
|---|---|
| Title: | European Identity in Cinema in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization |
| Event: | On the Ruins and Margins of European Identity in Cinema |
| Location: | Tours, France |
| Dates: | 02 - 03 April 2019 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.lestudium-ias.com/events/ruins-and-mar... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | European identity, Eurooean cinema, globalization, refugee crisis, ethics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194020 |
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