JILL FORBES is Professor of French at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She is an international authority on French cinema and author of many publications in the field including The Cinema in France: After the New Wave (Macmillan, 1992), French Cultural Studies (Oxford University Press, 1995, with Michael Kelly) and Les Enfants du Paradis (BFI, 1997).

SARAH STREET is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Bristol. A distinguished authority on British cinema, her publications include Cinema and State (co-authored with Margaret Dickinson, 1985) and British National Cinema (Routledge, 1997).

Introduction
PART ONE
European Cinema: Economics and Politics
European Cinema: Ideology, Aesthetics and Style
References and Suggestions for Further Reading
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES
Bronenosets Potemkin/Potyomkin (The Battleship Potemkin); B.Beumers
The Lodger; S.Street
La Règle du jeu; J.Forbes
Ossessione; D.Duncan
Viridiana; A.McDermott
Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities); S.Taberner
Carmen; A.McDermott
Good Morning Babilonia; D.Duncan
Das Versprechen (The Promise); S.Taberner
La Haine; J.Forbes
Trainspotting; S.Street
Sibirskii tsiriul'nik (The Barber of Siberia); B.Beumers
Notes on Contributors
Index.