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

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Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinema 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 E.U. An entire post-Wall generation has now...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Gott, Michael (Editor), Herzog, Todd (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2015.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Europe.
Motion pictures > Europe, Central.
Motion pictures > Europe, Eastern.
Motion pictures
Europe
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: East, West and Centre: 'Mapping Post-1989 European Cinema' / Michael Gott and Todd Herzog
  • Part I Redrawing the Lines: De/Recentring Europe
  • 1. The Berlin Wall Revisited: Reframing Historical Space Between East and in Cynthia Beatts's Cycling the Frame (1988), The Invisible Frame (2009) and Bartosz Konopka's Rabbit à la Berlin (2009) / Jenny Stümer
  • 2. Changing Sides: East/West Travesties in Lionel Baier's Comme des voleurs (à l'est) / Kris Van Heuckelom
  • 3. Dubbing and Doubling Over: The Disorientation of France in the Films of Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieślowski / Alison Rice
  • 4. Challenging the East-West Divide in Ulrich Seidl's Import Export (2007) / Nikhil Sathe
  • 5. Fatih Akın's Filmic Visions of a New Europe: Spatial and Aural Constructions of Europe in Im Juli/In July (2000) / Berna Gueneli
  • 6. Salami Aleikum
  • The 'Near East' Meets the 'Middle East' in Central Europe / Alexandra Ludewig
  • 7. Cinematic Fairy Tales of Female Mobility in Post-Wall Europe: Hanna v. Mona / Aga Skrodzka
  • 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
  • 9. The Point of No Return: From Great Expectations to Great Desperation in New Romanian Cinema / Lucian Georgescu
  • 10. 'Weirdness', Modernity and the Other Europe in Attenberg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari) / Jun Okada
  • 11. Lithuania Redirected: New Connections, Businesses and Lifestyles in Cinema since 2000 / Renata S̆ukaityte
  • 12. Lessons of Neo-liberalism: Co-productions and the Changing Image of Estonian Cinema / Eva Näripea
  • 13. Decentring Europe from the Fringe: Reimagining Balkan Identities in the Films of the 1990s / Danica Jenkins and Kati Tonkin
  • Part III Spectres of the East
  • 14. Through the Lens of Black Humour: A Polish Adam in the Post-Wall World / Rimma Garn
  • 15. East Germany Revisited, Reimagined, Repositioned: Representing the GDR in Dominik Graf's Der rote Kakadu (2005) and Christian Petzold's Barbara (2012) / Nick Hodgin
  • 16. Barluschke: Towards an East-West Schizo-History / Kalani Michell
  • 17. The Limits of Nostalgia and (Trans)National Cinema in Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii (2006) / Mihaela Petrescu
  • 18. The Ideal of Ararat: Friendship, Politics and National Origins in Robert Guédiguian's Le Voyage en Arménie / Joseph Mai.

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