This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and collaboration, and of how cultural products circulate across national borders. The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special kind of cultural encounter with the possibility of facilitating reflections on national differences within Europe and negotiations of what characterizes a national or a European identity respectively.

List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Mediated Cultural Encounters in Europe; Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall and Andrew Higson PART I: CULTURE, IDENTITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE 1. Narratives of European Identity; Monica Sassatelli 2. Film, Everyday Life and European Identity; Michael Meyen 3. Sensing National Spaces: Representing Mundane Spaces in English Film and Television; Tim Edensor PART II: FILM AND MEDIA POLICY: BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND THE TRANSNATIONAL 4. The European Audiovisual Space: How European Media Policy has set the Pace of its Development; Carmina Crusafon 5. Beyond Borders and Into the Digital Era: Future-proofing European-level Film Support Schemes; Sophie De Vinck and Caroline Pauwels PART III: NATIONAL CINEMAS EUROPEAN CINEMAS 6. British Cinema, Europe and the Global Reach For Audiences; Andrew Higson 7. The East Meets the West in Contemporary Eastern European Films; Ewa Mazierska 8. New Voices, New Stories: Migrant Cinema and Television in Norway; Leif Ove Larsen PART IV: NATIONAL TELEVISION EUROPEAN TELEVISION 9. Italian TV Drama: The Multiple Forms of European Influence; Milly Buonanno 10. Breaking Borders: The International Success of Danish Television Drama; Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall 11. Small Nation Big Neighbour: Co-Producing Stories in a European Context; Diog O'Connell Index