A companion to Eastern European cinemas / edited by Anikó Imre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imre, Anikó.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas.

The Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe, Eastern.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (523 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 assessments of post-socialist film cultures Features consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as Albanian and Baltic cinemas, popular genre films, cross-national distribution and aesthetics, animation and documentary Places the cinemas of the region in a European and

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-118-29435-1

1-118-29438-6

1-78268-452-2

1-118-29437-8

1-283-54961-1

9786613862068

1-118-29434-3

OCLC:

807035323