The best source of up to date, reliable statistics on
European cinema - exhibition as well as production - is the
Eureka Audiovisuel Observatory, which publishes a full
yearbook and summaries - has a website too, but I don't
have the address to hand.
Ian Christie
On Mon, 31 May 1999 16:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Altug Isigan
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>
>
> In the frame of a paper I have to prepare for a PhD-seminar,
> I'm searching for statistics about film industries of European
> Countries,which would help me to figure out the economic trends of
> European cinema(s) in the 90's. Any statistics or titles/adresses of
> sources (intitutes,web-sites, books, yearbooks, journals, essays..)
> about any European country would be helpful.
>
> I also plan to use this seminar-paper as the basis of a later
> discussion on the term 'European film'itself.It seems interesting to me
> that this term mostly refers to a 'whole'and 'substantial' being (or as
> Jusdanis in the context of European Literature says, a 'divine unity'),
> although for example the substance-nature (or whatever)of one of this
> terms components is the reason for ontological debates in
> (European?)film(-)philosophy. What makes Wenders, Kusturica or Von
> Trier the members of the family, which is using a -in both: film theory
> and practice- 'yet-not-exposed' material the same way? Is it less
> difficult to say what a European film makes a European film, than to
> say what a film makes a film?
>
> Well, maybe this is not a real problem and I'm afraid I ask stupid
> questions. So I should be happy if I just could finish the industry
> part.:-)
>
> Anyway, thanks for your help.
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Altug
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Ian Christie
Professor of Film Studies
School of Arts and Image Studies
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