Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 342 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
1780763018
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9780755603466
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9781780763019
Series Statement:
International library of the moving image 14
Content:
"All countries and nations are deeply affected by their neighbours and every national cinema reflects this relationship. This book explores how postcolonial approaches can 'frame' the neighbours of people living in Eastern Europe. It elucidates how the region has evolved from being a communist extension of the Soviet Union to becoming integrated into neoliberal capitalism. Drawing on classical studies of post-coloniality by Edward Said, Gayatri C. Spivak and Homi K. Bhabha, as well as the works of theorists and historians like Janusz Korek and Jaak Kangilaski, who specialise in the Eastern European variant of postcolonialism, the book demonstrates particular sensitivity to the question of genre in investigating how neighbours fit into and shape melodramas and thrillers, heritage and war films. Contributors explore a wide range of films in relation to territory, from the steppes of the East to reunified Berlin and to Albania on the Adriatic Sea and from the streets of Tallinn to the hill slopes of Transylvania. Individual chapters situate in a new context the movies of internationally celebrated filmmakers, such as Roman Polanski, Agnieszka Holland, Nikita Mikhalkov and Jan Hrebejk, as well as introducing films by locally renowned directors, such as Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Arsen Anton Ostojic' and Leida Laius."--
Content:
Postcolonial theory and the postcommunist world / Ewa Mazierska, Lars Kristensen and Eva Näripea -- "If your car is stolen, it will soon be in Poland" : criminal representations of Poland and the Poles in German fictional film of the 1990s / Kristin Kopp -- Neighbours (almost) like us : representation of Germans, Germanness and Germany in Polish communist and postcommunist cinema / Ewa Mazierska -- "I'm at home here" : Sudeten Germans in Czech postcommunist cinema / Petra Hanáková -- Jánošik : the cross-border hero / Peter Hames --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755603466
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