{"product_id":"a-companion-to-eastern-european-cinemas-isbn-9781444337259","title":"A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Eastern European Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e 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   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShowcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film cultures\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as Albanian and Baltic cinemas, popular genre films, cross-national distribution and aesthetics, animation and documentary\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces the cinemas of the region in a European and global context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eResists the Cold War classification of Eastern European cinemas as “other” art cinemas by reconnecting them with the main circulation of film studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes discussion of such films as \u003ci\u003eTaxidermia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEl Perro Negro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e12:08 East of Bucharest Big Tõll\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBreakfast on the Grass\u003c\/i\u003e and explores the work of directors including Tamás Almási, Walerian Borowczyk, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej ¯u³awski, and Karel Vachek amongst many others\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Notes 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? New Turkish Cinema and Eastern Europe 504\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelis Behlil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 518\u003c\/p\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  \u003cb\u003eAnikó Imre\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies at University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her books include \u003ci\u003eEast European Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e (2005); \u003ci\u003eTransnational Feminism in Film and Media\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Katarzyna Marciniak and Áine O’Healy, 2007); \u003ci\u003eIdentity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2009); and \u003ci\u003ePopular Television in Eastern and Southern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Timothy Havens and Kati Lustyik, 2011). She is also co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eGlobal Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e book series.  \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Eastern European Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive exploration of Eastern European film cultures. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging film scholars, essays trace the development of Eastern European cinemas utilizing a variety of approaches—from political, economic, and cultural contexts to aesthetics and themes pertinent to the cinemas of the post-Soviet region. Topics explored include well-established areas of film study such as dissident national art cinemas and auteurs, as well as issues that have received scant attention—popular cinemas, transnational production, distribution and exhibition, and the effects of Europeanization and global media convergence on film cultures.  More than 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Eastern European Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely reassessment of the cinematic traditions of Eastern Europe while paving the way for future areas of study.  \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Eastern European Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e is a much awaited successor to Imre’s previous book, \u003ci\u003eEast European Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e. It brings together an impressive range of scholars who widen the initial discussion, arguing for the critical importance of socialist and postsocialist film cultures in a larger network of global and transnational media studies.”\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eKatarzyna Marciniak, author of Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This volume reframes outdated paradigms, retranslates the canons and enlists new sources, vigorously shaking up the big picture of cinema in Europe.”\u003cbr\u003e - \u003ci\u003eNatasa Durovicova, University of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988605747429,"sku":"NP9781444337259","price":63.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444337259.jpg?v=1761780943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-eastern-european-cinemas-isbn-9781444337259","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}