A companion to Eastern European cinemas /

A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures. - Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessment...

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Other Authors: Imre, Anikó
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Eastern European cinema from no end to the end (as we know it) / Anikó Imre
  • New theoretical and critical frameworks. Body horror and post-socialist cinema: Gyorgy Polfis Taxidermia / Steven Shaviro
  • El perro negro: transnational readings of database documentaries from Spain / Marsha Kinder
  • Did somebody say Communism in the classroom? or, the value of analyzing totality in recent Serbian cinema / Zoran Samardzija
  • Laughing into an abyss: cinema and Balkanization / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
  • Jewish identities and generational perspectives / Catherine Portuges
  • Aftereffects of 1989: Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Romanian cinema / Alice Bardan
  • Cinema beyond borders: Slovenian cinema in a world context / Meta Mazaj and Shekhar Deshpande
  • Historical and spatial redefinitions. Center and periphery, or how Karel Vachek formed a new government / Alice Lovejoy
  • The Polish black series documentary and the British Free Cinema movement / Bjorn Sorenssen
  • Socialists in outer space: East German film's Venusian adventure / Stefan Soldovieri
  • Red Shift: new Albanian cinema and its dialogue with the old / Bruce Williams
  • National space, (trans)national cinema: Estonian film in the 1960s / Eva Näripea
  • For the peace, for a new man, for a better world! Italian leftist culture and Czechoslovak cinema, 1945-1968 / Francesco Pitassio
  • Aesthetic (re)visions. The impossible Polish new wave and its accursed Émigré auteurs: Borowczyk, Polanski, Skolimowski and Zulawski / Michael Goddard
  • Documentary and industrial decline in Hungary: the zd Series of Tamás Almási / John Cunningham
  • Investigating the past, envisioning the future: an exploration of post-1991 Latvian documentary / Maruta Z. Vitols
  • East European historical epics: genre cinema and the visualization of a heroic national past / Nikolina Dobreva
  • Nation, gender and history in Latvian genre cinema / Irina Novikova
  • A comparative study: Rein Raamat's Big tõll and Priit Pärn's Luncheon on the grass / Andreas Trossek
  • Yugoslav black wave: the history and poetics of polemical cinema in the 60s and 70s in Yugoslavia / Greg DeCuir, Jr.
  • Industries and institutions. Follow the money: financing contemporary cinema in Romania / Ioana Uricaru
  • An alternative model of film production: film units in Poland after WWII / Dorota Ostrowska
  • The Hussite heritage film: a dream for all Czech seasons / Petra Hanukovu
  • International coproductions as productions of heterotopias / Ewa Mazierska
  • East is East? new Turkish cinema and Eastern Europe / Melis Behlil.