Cinema of the other Europe : the industry and artistry of East Central European film / Dina Iordanova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iordanova, Dina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Europe, Central.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Europe, Central.

Motion pictures.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2003.

Summary:

Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film is a comprehensive study of the cinematic traditions of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1945 to the present day, exploring the major schools of film-making and the main stages of development across the region during the period of state socialism up until the end of the Cold War, as well as more recent transformations post-1989. It is thus a timely appraisal of Film Studies debates ranging from the representation of history and memory, the reassessment of political content, ethics and society, the rehabilitation of popular cinema, and the rethinking of national and regional cinemas in the context of globalisation.

In encouraging a more inclusive understanding of European cinema, much needed for the new unified Europe 'enlarged' towards its Eastern periphery, this book maps out the interactions, key concerns, thematic spheres and stylistic particularities that make the cinema of East Central Europe a vital part of European film tradition. In particular, this study explores the social, historical, ethical and industrial contexts of film-making of the region, from the innovations of Hungarian Cinema of the 1950s, the international impact of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s and 1970s, the Polish cinema of 'moral concern' throughout the 1980s, to the transitional cinema of post-communism and the 'velvet revolutions' of the 1990s. Exploring the work of directors as diverse as Zoltan Fabri, Wojciech Has, Jan Nemec, Istvan Szabo, Juraj Jakubisko, Karoly Makk, Miklos Jancso, Krzysztof Zanussi, Milos Forman, Andrzej Wajda, Marta Meszaros, Andrzej Munk, Jan Sverak, Bela Tarr and Krzysztof Kieslowski, films considered include The Fifth Seal, Cold Days, The Saragossa Manuscript, The Round-Up, Mephisto, Passenger, Ashes and Diamonds, A Blonde in Love, The Dekalogue, Kolya, Chico and Divided We Fall.

Contents:

East Central European film studies

The industry

Historical film I : narratives of identity

Historical film II : discourse on morality

State socialist modernity : the urban and the rural

Women's cinema, women's concerns

East Central European cinema since 1989.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219), filmography and index.

ISBN:

1903364647

1903364612

OCLC:

51994021