European cinema has generally been defined by its leading auteurs, National cinemas, low budget¿committed movies, aesthetic renovations, the issue of realism, and a deep humanist conception as its background. This course does not aim at explaining these concepts, but to examine three aspects of European movies which stem somehow from historically constructed identity of today¿s Europe. In this sense the intricate relationship existing among European cinema and depictions of city, body and otherness will be explored. The course, therefore is divided into three modules, and each module consisting of two lectures and seminars. The first module will be dedicated to study the image of the city as a setting, symbol and the socio-cultural organism. The depiction of the body in movies, one of the hallmarks of European cinema, will be the subject of the second module in order to address the image of body not only as an embodiment of desires, needs and sensations, but also as a site of political conflicts. Finally the last two weeks of the course will be engaged with the question of otherness in European cinema. In this module, apart from the issue of the migrant and diasporic films, a sample of eastern European cinema will be analysed.