Cinema of the Other Europe The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film

Name: Cinema of the Other Europe The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film
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ISBN: 9781903364611

ISBN-10: 1903364612

ISBN-13: 9781903364611

Edition: 2003

Authors: Dina Iordanova

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Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film is the first major study of the cinematic traditions of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia from 1945 to the present day. It explores the major schools of film-making and the main stages of development across the region during the period of state socialism up until the end of the Cold War as well as more recent transformations post-1989. The book examines how European cinema is still mostly synonymous with West European film and how the cinema of Eastern Europe is still largely excluded and under-explored. Including material on directors such as Istvn Szab ( Mephisto), Krzysztof Kieslowski (…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 3/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Dina Iordanova is chair of film studies at the University of St. Andrews and has published widely on Eastern European, Balkan, and Russian cinema.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Film and Context



East Central European Film Studies


Periodisation


Regionalism


Re-mapping


Beyond the Post-Cold War Era



The Industry


Cultural Dimensions of 'the Bloc'


Production and Studios


Distribution and Exhibition


Animation and Documentary


Censorship


Realism


Movements and Migrations



Film and History, Ethics and Society



Historical Film I: Narratives of Identity


Preoccupation with History


Heritage Epics


Surrealist Proliferation of History


The Burden of History



Historical Film II: Discourse on Morality


Moral Theorems


Ways of Remembering: Victims and Perpetrators


Small Individuals, Big Ironies


Totalitarianism's Moral Damage



State Socialist Modernity: The Urban and the Rural


The Greyness of Everyday Life


Apolitical Political Cinema


The Czechoslovak New Wave


Village Life: Patriarchy in Crisis


Romanies: Little-known Neighbours


The Cinema of Moral Concern



Films and Film-makers



Women's Cinema, Women's Concerns


Women in East Central European Cinema


Reluctant Feminists


Women and Stalinism: Mothers of Missing Children and Children Looking for Mothers


Communal Confinement


In Search of Privacy: Loneliness, Betrayal, Solidarity


Sexing-up the Post-Communist Woman



East Central European Cinema since 1989


The Industry


Generations


Themes



Resources


Scholarship


Further sources


Teaching National Cinema


Teaching Regional Cinema


Resources by Chapter


Notes


Filmography


Bibliography


Index