Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: v. 2

The chapters in this volume arise from a conference, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity, held at Keele University. Concentrating on questions of history, origins, culture and citizenship, the contributors seek to evaluate the extent to which a specifically European identity has begun to emerge, and what profile this identity is beginning to take. This volume, alongside its companion volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Political and Historical Dimensions, addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: What does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the political debate over the last two centuries? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a fortress Europe?

Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; D.Holmes, E.Kolinsky, M.Crook & J.Andrew PART I: FILM Belgian Film Comedy and National Identity; K.Reader Double Lives: Europe and Identity in the Later Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski; G.Roberts Hitmen, Hate and Grosse Fatigue: The Search for the French Blockbuster; A.Smith PART II: MEDIA ISSUES Regulation for Media Pluralism: Issues in Ownership and Competition; P.Humphreys The European 'Goal' and the Popular Press; P.Moores PART III: GENDER AND IDENTITY Representations of Feminism in France: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and Post-Feminism; G.Allwood Reflections on Gender Issues in Contemporary Europe; S.Bassnett AIDS Prevention, Gay Identity and National Homophobia in France; M.Pratt PART IV: WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN SOCIETIES Class, Gender and Voting in Italy; A.Bull Women, Work and Family in Post-Communist Germany; E.Kolinsky Women in Russia and the Former USSR: Politics, Society and Culture; R.Marsh PART V: YOUTH AND EDUCATION Warfare by Other Means: Unity and Fracture in European Education; D.Coulby Transitional Affinities in the European Context: The Case of Contemporary French Youth Culture; C.Warne Russia's Identity Crisis: Its Effect on the Schools and the Young; S.Webber Index

About the Author :
JOE ANDREW is Professor of Russian at Keele University, where he has worked since 1972. He has published four monographs with Macmillan on Russian literature and society, and women in Russian literature. He has also edited a number of works devoted to structural analysis and formalism. He is co-Chair of 'The neo-Formalist Circle' as well as co-editor of its journal Essays in Poetics. MALCOLM CROOK is Reader in History at Keele University. He has published Toulon in War and Revolution, from the Ancien Regime to the Restoration, 1750-1820 (1991), Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799(1996) and Napoleon Comes to Power: Democracy and Dictatorship in Revolutionary France, 1795-1804 (1998). He continues to work on the history of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, whilst preparing a study of electoral culture in nineteenth-century France. DIANA HOLMES is Professor of French at Keele University and teaches both French Studies and European Studies. Her publications on French Women writers include Colette (1990) and French Women's Writing 1848-1994(1996), as well as articles and chapters on Colette, Rachilde and others. She is co-author of a study of the films of Francois Truffaut (1998) and is currently working on a study of Brigitte Bardot for a book on stardom, written in collaboration with French Studies colleagues at Keele. She is also writing a book on the only woman writer of the French Decadent movement, Rachilde. EVA KOLINSKY, Dr.Phil., FRSA, is Professor of Modern German Studies at Keele University, She directs an international research group on post-communist social transformation and is currently undertaking a comparative study of minority cultures in Germany. Recent books include Women in Contemporary Germany (1993); Women in Twentieth-Century Germany (1995); Between Hope and Fear. Everyday Life in Post-Unification Germany (ed., 1995); Turkish Culture in German Society Today (ed. with D. Horrocks, 1996); Social Transformation and the Family in Post-Communist Germany (ed., 1998) and Companion to Modern German Culture (ed.with W. Van der Will, 1999). She is editor of the Culture and Society in Germany book series for Berghahn and co-editor of German Politics.