East, west and centre : reframing post-1989 European cinema / edited by Michael Gott and Todd Herzog.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gott, Michael, editor.

Herzog, Todd, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Europe, Central.

Motion pictures--Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Central Europe.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 341 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Twenty-five years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in Eastern Europe, and ten years have passed since the first formerly communist states entered the EU. An entire post-Wall generation has now entered adulthood, yet scholarship on European cinema still tends to divide the continent along the old Cold War lines. In East, West and Centre the world's leading scholars in the field assemble to consider the ways in which notions such as East and West, national and transnational, central and marginal are being rethought and reframed in contemporary European cinema. Assessing the state of post-1989 European cinema, from (co)production and reception trends to filmic depictions of migration patterns, economic transformations and socio-political debates over the past and the present, they address increasingly intertwined cinema industries that are both central (France and Germany) and marginal in Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania) in Europe. This is a ground-breaking and essential read, not just for students and scholars in film and Media Studies, but also for those interested in wider European studies as well. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Redrawing the Lines: De/Recentring Europe

1 The Berlin Wall Revisited: Reframing Historical Space between East and West in Cynthia Beatts's Cycling the Frame (1988), The Invisible Frame (2009) and Bartosz Konopka's Rabbit à la Berlin (2009) / Jenny Stümer Stümer, Jenny 23

2 Changing Sides: East/West Travesties in Lionel Baier's Comme des voleurs (à Vest) / Kris Van Heuckelom Heuckelom, Kris Van 37

3 Dubbing and Doubling Over: The Disorientation of France in the Films of Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieslowski / Alison Rice Rice, Alison 51

4 Challenging the East-West Divide in Ulrich Seidl's Import Export (2007) / Nikhil Sathe Sathe, Nikhil 65

5 Fatih Alan's Filmic Visions of a New Europe: Spatial and Aural Constructions of Europe in Im Juli/In July (2000) / Berna Gueneli Gueneli, Berna 79

6 Salami Aleikum - The 'Near East' Meets the 'Middle East' in Europe / Alexandra Ludewig Ludewig, Alexandra 95

7 Cinematic Fairy Tales of Female Mobility in Post-Wall Europe: Hanna v. Mona / Aga Skrodzka Skrodzka, Aga 109

Part II Border Spaces, Eastern Margins and Eastern Markets; Belonging and the Road to/from Europe

8 Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema: From Allegorical Expressionism to Declined National Cinema / Temenuga Trifonova Trifonova, Temenuga 127

9 The Point of No Return: From Great Expectations to Great Desperation in New Romanian Cinema / Lucian Georgescu Georgescu, Lucian 147

10 'Weirdness', Modernity and the Other Europe in Attenherg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari) / Jun Okada Okada, Jun 159

11 Lithuania Redirected: New Connections, Businesses and Lifestyles in Cinema since 2000 / Renata Šukaityte Šukaityte, Renata 175

12 Lessons of Neo-liberalism: Co-productions and the Changing Image of Estonian Cinema / Eva Näripea Näripea, Eva 191

13 Decentring Europe from the Fringe: Reimagining Balkan Identities in the Films of the 1990s / Danica Jenkins Jenkins, Danica, Kali Tonkin Tonkin, Kali 205

Part III Spectres of the East

14 Through the Lens of Black Humour: A Polish Adam in the Post-Wall World / Rimma Garn Garn, Rimma 221

15 East Germany Revisited, Reimagined, Repositioned: Representing the GDR in Dominik Graf's Der rote Kakadu (2005) and Christian Petzold's Barbara (2012) / Nick Ilodgin Ilodgin, Nick 237

16 Barluschke: Towards an East-West Sehizo-history / Kalani Michell Michell, Kalani 253

17 The Limits of Nostalgia and (Trans)National Cinema in Cum mi-am petrecut sfârsitul lumii (2006) / Mihaela Petrescu Petrescu, Mihaela 267

18 The Ideal of Ararat: Friendship, Politics and National Origins in Robert Guédiguian's Le Voyage en Arméme / Joseph Mai Mai, Joseph 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index.

ISBN:

0748694153

9780748694150

OCLC:

900622932