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Book SynopsisShows how cinema both reflects and engenders interzones that explore the important questions of Europe's social order: imperialism and nation-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; "first contact" between former adversaries (such as East and West Germany) following World War II and the Cold War.
Trade Review"An original and ground-breaking view of the post-Wende central European landscape, drawn from a remarkable abundance of sources. Halle's writing is intelligent and even amusing--I couldn't put the book down until I had read it to the last page."
--Janina Falkowska, author of
Andrzej Wajda: History, Politics, and Nostalgia in Polish Cinema "Fascinating. The book's meticulous, insightful, and effective writing, which illuminates the ideational spaces of cinematic interzones from a European context, should have no trouble finding several imaginative communities of active readers."--
Council For European Studies "An intelligent and innovative study."--Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Idea of Bridges and the Image of Roads: Culture and Space1. The Film Apparatus2. Interzone History3. Contiguous: The German-Polish Interzone4. Interzone Dis/continuous: The Borders of Europe5. "Outside" Europe6. Interzone Xperimental: Migration and Moving ImagesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
