{"product_id":"a-companion-to-eastern-european-cinemas-9781444337259","title":"A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eImre’s volume will doubtlessly prove to be an indispensible resource for scholars and educators alike, and one can only hope that the marvelous scholarship that abounds in the space of this volume will inspire further research into the cinema of the 'other' Europ\u003ci\u003ee.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eFilm International\u003c\/i\u003e, 5 December 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an extremely scholarly work which will be welcomed by dedicated students of Eastern European cinema and those seeking detailed source material on pre and post-Cold War East European cinema.\"  (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Challenges outdated modes of examination, revealing Eastern European cinema's connection to European, transnational, and global media productions ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice,\u003c\/i\u003e 1 July 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Editor and Contributors viii  \u003cp\u003eForeword xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDina Iordanova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Eastern European Cinema From No End to the End (As We Know It) 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnikó Imre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I New Theoretical and Critical Frameworks 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Body Horror and Post-Socialist Cinema: György Pálfi’s Taxidermia 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteven Shaviro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 El perro negro : Transnational Readings of Database Documentaries from Spain 41\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarsha Kinder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Did Somebody Say Communism in the Classroom? or The Value of Analyzing Totality in Recent Serbian Cinema 63\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eZoran Samardzija\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Laughing into an Abyss: Cinema and Balkanization 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKriss Ravetto-Biagioli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Jewish Identities and Generational Perspectives 101\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Portuges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Aftereffects of 1989: Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Romanian Cinema 125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlice Bardan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Cinema Beyond Borders: Slovenian Cinema in a World Context 148\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeta Mazaj and Shekhar Deshpande\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Historical and Spatial Redefinitions 167\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Center and Periphery, or How Karel Vachek Formed a New Government 169\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlice Lovejoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Polish Black Series Documentary and the British Free Cinema Movement 183\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBjørn Sørenssen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Socialists in Outer Space: East German Film’s Venusian Adventure 201\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStefan Soldovieri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Red Shift: New Albanian Cinema and its Dialogue with the Old 224\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruce Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 National Space, (Trans)National Cinema: Estonian Film in the 1960s 244\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEva Näripea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 For the Peace, For a New Man, For a Better World! Italian Leftist Culture and Czechoslovak Cinema, 1945–1968 265\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrancesco Pitassio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Aesthetic (Re)visions 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Impossible Polish New Wave and its Accursed Émigré Auteurs: Borowczyk, Polañski, Skolimowski, and ¯u³awski 291\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Goddard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Documentary and Industrial Decline in Hungary: The “Ózd Series” of Tamás Almási 311\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Cunningham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Investigating the Past, Envisioning the Future: An Exploration of Post-1991 Latvian Documentary 325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaruta Z. Vitols\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Eastern European Historical Epics: Genre Cinema and the Visualization of a Heroic National Past 344\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNikolina Dobreva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Nation, Gender, and History in Latvian Genre Cinema 366\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIrina Novikova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 A Comparative Study: Rein Raamat’s Big Tõll and Priit Pärn’s Luncheon on the Grass 385\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndreas Trossek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Yugoslav Black Wave: The History and Poetics of Polemical Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia 403\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreg De Cuir, Jr .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Industries and Institutions 425\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Follow the Money – Financing Contemporary Cinema in Romania 427\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIoana Uricaru\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 An Alternative Model of Film Production: Film Units in Poland after World War Two 453\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDorota Ostrowska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Hussite Heritage Film: A Dream for all Czech Seasons 466\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePetra Hanáková\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 International Co-productions as Productions of Heterotopias 483\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEwa Mazierska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 East is East? 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