Screening Europe: The State of Polycrisis in the European Audiovisual Industry

Research group, funded by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES), co-directors: Petar Mitric, University of Copenhagen, and Anna Estera Mrozewicz, Lund University.

The project explores how the European screen contents reflect Europe’s ethnic, racial, gender, linguistic and class-related diversity; which discourses, aesthetics, and narrative strategies predominate in European screen content; how much of the political and social reality of Europe is depicted on European screens; and, how digitization, AI, US platform imperialism, environmental crisis, and war have been affecting European screen industries. Our contextual and interdisciplinary approach aims at identifying obstacles and opportunities for European policymakers in this extremely disruptive period for the European audiovisual sector, as well as on addressing potential policy solutions. It ultimately asks how the relationship between academic researchers and decision-makers in the European film and TV industries can be improved to better address current challenges.