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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Europe, Eastern—History [Browse]
• Space in motion pictures [Browse]
• Human body in motion pictures [Browse]
• Collective memory and motion pictures [Browse]

Editor

• Virginás, Andrea, 1976- [Browse]

Summary note

"The "spatial", the "bodily", and the "memory turn" in the humanities and cultural studies are well-canonized developments. These features of our being in the world are fundamental in the medium of cinema, which is an art of spaces, bodies, and memories, increasingly so today when the analogue platform has been running parallel with the digitalized method of filmmaking. The three nodal concepts define the tripartite structure of this volume, composed of an overview study and twelve case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. The overarching questions of space representation and construction, bodies on screen, issues of national identification in a postcolonial framework, and cinema as a form of cultural memory are explored through the lens of specific national cinemas or contemporary Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Romanian films. In addition to investigating the cohesive forces that mark the postcommunist Eastern European region as a coherent cultural entity in its cinematic representations, the volume also stands as a witness to the importance of transnational approaches."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The case for postcolonial, postsocialist media studies / Anikó Imre
• Concrete utopias: discourses of domestic space in Hungarian cinema / Zsolt Györi
• From heterotopias to non-places: the (national) identity reviewed through spaces of contemporary Slovak cinema / Jana Dudková
• Fragile diegetic spaces and mobile women: coping with trauma in Hungarian and Romanian films / Andrea Virginás
• The titular nation in (post-)Yugoslav cinema / Edward Alexander
• Apostate bodies: Nimród Antal's Kontroll and Eastern European identity politics / Gyórgy Kalmár
• Corporeality and otherness in the cinematic heterotopias of Bibliotheque Pascal / Katalin Sándor
• Monstrous maternity as disembodied materiality in Romanian new wave cinema / Mihaela Ursa
• Post-bodies in Hungarian cinema: forgotten bodies and spaces in Agnes Kocsis' Pál Adrienn / Eszter Ureczky
• "You want the truth? How do you know you won't choke on it?": the issue of memory in Aftermath / Elzbieta Durys
• Paradigms of rememoration in postcommunist Romanian cinema / Claudiu Tursus
• The eternal return of Slovak cinema: narrative structures, genre codes and cinematic memory after 1989 / Katarina Misiková
• Making and breaking the new wave canon in Romanian cinema / Doru Pop.

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ISBN

• 1443800597 (hardback)
• 9781443800594 (hardback)

OCLC

968306073

RCP

H - S

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