1st Edition

Before Sunrise Young Love on the Move

102 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

102 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

102 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a fresh analysis of Before Sunrise that reframes its romance within the contexts of transnational culture and cinema. The book highlights the symbolic value of the film’s construction of transnational youth in the building of a trans-European culture. Engaging with the film’s critical history, this book focuses on its specific view of youth and young love. Before Sunrise:... Read more

Introduction   1. Youth Cultures in the 1990s  2. Indie, Comic and Transnational: The Production of Before Sunset in Context  3. Falling in Love with Linklater: Genre, Realism, Quotation and Young Love  4. Crossing the Ocean: From Regional to Transnational  5. Europe 95  6. Comedy and (Lost) Youth

Biography

María del Mar Azcona teaches Film Studies and English at the University of Zaragoza. Her research is about comedy, mobilities, cosmopolitanism and star studies. She is the author of The Multi-Protagonist Film (2010) and co-author, with Celestino Deleyto, of Alejandro González Iñárritu (2010).

Celestino Deleyto is Professor of Film Studies and English at the University of Zaragoza. His research fields include comedy, transnational cinema, cosmopolitan and border theory and film and social space. He is the author of The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (2009), From Tinseltown to Bordertown: Los Angeles on Film (2016) and co-author, with María del Mar Azcona, of Alejandro González Iñárritu (2010).