FrontCover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. European Cinema: In The Shadow of Hollywood -- Globalisation and National Culture -- Hollywood: the economics of domination -- The UK -- European Cinema: the political context -- European Cinema: an economic challenge to Hollywood? -- GATT Crisis -- MEDIA/Eurimages -- The Disappearance Of Finbar: case study of a co-production -- European Cinema: a cultural challenge to Hollywood? -- The Antinomies of Cultural Theory -- Making The Case For Protection of Indigenous Culture -- References -- 2. National Cinema/International Markets -- National Identity -- National Identities and International Markets -- (Inter) National Cinema -- The Politics of the Historical Drama -- Elizabeth -- Century -- French Politics and Cinema in the 1990s -- Five French Films From The 1990s -- Historical Drama -- Contemporary Stories -- References -- 3. Pan-European Cinema -- Pan-European Cinema -- Nationalism and Pan-Europeanism -- The Name of the Rose -- Land and Freedom -- The Disappearance of Finbar -- Europa -- Three Colours Blue -- References -- 4. After The Fall: Cinema and Central and Eastern Europe -- After The Fall -- Prometheus -- Ulysses' Gaze -- Three Colours White -- Cultural Theory and The Death of Yugoslavia -- The Cultural Turn -- Cultural Theory and the Other -- Post-Yugoslavia: economy and culture -- Films and Film Criticism on the Balkans -- References -- 5. Diasporan Travels: British Asian Cinema -- The Rise and Rehabilitation of Hybridity -- Theorising Diaspora -- Black Film and Criticism -- Unity and Difference -- Bhaji On The Beach -- Wild West -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.