[eBook Code] A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas (eBook Code, 1st)

Notes on the Editor and Contributors viii

Foreword xv
Dina Iordanova

1 Introduction: Eastern European Cinema From No End to the End (As We Know It) 1
Anikó Imre

Part I New Theoretical and Critical Frameworks 23

2 Body Horror and Post-Socialist Cinema: György Pálfi’s Taxidermia 25
Steven Shaviro

3 El perro negro : Transnational Readings of Database Documentaries from Spain 41
Marsha Kinder

4 Did Somebody Say Communism in the Classroom? or The Value of Analyzing Totality in Recent Serbian Cinema 63
Zoran Samardzija

5 Laughing into an Abyss: Cinema and Balkanization 77
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

6 Jewish Identities and Generational Perspectives 101
Catherine Portuges

7 Aftereffects of 1989: Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Romanian Cinema 125
Alice Bardan

8 Cinema Beyond Borders: Slovenian Cinema in a World Context 148
Meta Mazaj and Shekhar Deshpande

Part II Historical and Spatial Redefinitions 167

9 Center and Periphery, or How Karel Vachek Formed a New Government 169
Alice Lovejoy

10 The Polish Black Series Documentary and the British Free Cinema Movement 183
Bjørn Sørenssen

11 Socialists in Outer Space: East German Film’s Venusian Adventure 201
Stefan Soldovieri

12 Red Shift: New Albanian Cinema and its Dialogue with the Old 224
Bruce Williams

13 National Space, (Trans)National Cinema: Estonian Film in the 1960s 244
Eva Näripea

14 For the Peace, For a New Man, For a Better World! Italian Leftist Culture and Czechoslovak Cinema, 1945–1968 265
Francesco Pitassio

Part III Aesthetic (Re)visions 289

15 The Impossible Polish New Wave and its Accursed Émigré Auteurs: Borowczyk, Polañski, Skolimowski, and ¯u³awski 291
Michael Goddard

16 Documentary and Industrial Decline in Hungary: The “Ózd Series” of Tamás Almási 311
John Cunningham

17 Investigating the Past, Envisioning the Future: An Exploration of Post-1991 Latvian Documentary 325
Maruta Z. Vitols

18 Eastern European Historical Epics: Genre Cinema and the Visualization of a Heroic National Past 344
Nikolina Dobreva

19 Nation, Gender, and History in Latvian Genre Cinema 366
Irina Novikova

20 A Comparative Study: Rein Raamat’s Big Tõll and Priit Pärn’s Luncheon on the Grass 385
Andreas Trossek

21 The Yugoslav Black Wave: The History and Poetics of Polemical Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia 403
Greg De Cuir, Jr .

Part IV Industries and Institutions 425

22 Follow the Money – Financing Contemporary Cinema in Romania 427
Ioana Uricaru

23 An Alternative Model of Film Production: Film Units in Poland after World War Two 453
Dorota Ostrowska

24 The Hussite Heritage Film: A Dream for all Czech Seasons 466
Petra Hanáková

25 International Co-productions as Productions of Heterotopias 483
Ewa Mazierska

26 East is East? New Turkish Cinema and Eastern Europe 504
Melis Behlil

Index 518