Popular Cinemas In East Central Europe

Author : Dorota Ostrowska,Francesco Pitassio,Zsuzsanna Varga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786722393

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Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe by Dorota Ostrowska,Francesco Pitassio,Zsuzsanna Varga Pdf

The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries – looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts – encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films from these countries – via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative channels – there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the region. Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary, the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from 1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies and the relationship between the popular and the national, it charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular cinema over time. The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries – looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts – encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films from these countries – via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative channels – there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the region. Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary, the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from 1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies and the relationship between the popular and the national, it charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular cinema over time.

Author : Dorota Ostrowska,Francesco Pitassio,Zsuzsanna Varga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786732392

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Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe by Dorota Ostrowska,Francesco Pitassio,Zsuzsanna Varga Pdf

The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films from these countries - via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative channels - there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the region.Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary, the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from 1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies and the relationship between the popular and the national, it charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular cinema over time.

Author : Dina Iordanova
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364612

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Cinema of the Other Europe by Dina Iordanova Pdf

Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film is a comprehensive study of the cinematic traditions of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1945 to the present day, exploring the major schools of filmmaking 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. In encouraging a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of European cinema, much needed for the new unified Europe `enlarged' towards its Eastern periphery, this book maps out the interactions, key concerns, thematic spheres and stylistic particularities that make the cinema of East Central Europe a vital part of European film tradition. Cinema of the Other Europe is thus a timely appraisal of Film Studies debates ranging from the representation of history and memory, the reassessment of political content, ethics and society, the rehabilitation of popular cinema, and the rethinking of national and regional cinemas in the context of globalisation.

Author : Peter Hames
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764207

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The Cinema of Central Europe by Peter Hames Pdf

Analysis of 24 films including: People of the mountains, Ashes and diamonds, Knife in the water, A shop on the high street, Closely observed trains, Daisies, Man of marble, Colonel Redl, The decalogue (Dekalog), Satantango, The garden, Alice (directed by Jan Svankmajer).

Author : Aga Skrodzka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748669363

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Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe by Aga Skrodzka Pdf

Magic Realist Cinema is the first book-length critical analysis of magic realism in cinema.

Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027295538

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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe by Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer Pdf

National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, which covers the last two hundred years, reconceptualizes these literary traditions by de-emphasizing the national myths and by highlighting analogies and points of contact, as well as hybrid and marginal phenomena that traditional national histories have ignored or deliberately suppressed. The four volumes of the History configure the literatures from five angles: (1) key political events, (2) literary periods and genres, (3) cities and regions, (4) literary institutions, and (5) real and imaginary figures. The first volume, which includes the first two of these dimensions, is a collaborative effort of more than fifty contributors from Eastern and Western Europe, the US, and Canada.The four volumes of the History comprise the first volume in the new subseries on Literary Cultures.

Author : David W. Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015008372859

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Politics, Art and Commitment in the East European Cinema by David W. Paul Pdf

Author : Catherine Portuges,Peter Hames
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1592132650

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Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 by Catherine Portuges,Peter Hames Pdf

The cinemas of Eastern and Central Europe have been moving away from earlier Cold War perspectives and iconographies toward identifications more closely linked to a redefined Europe. Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 studies the shifts in the dynamics between film production, exhibition, and reception in Eastern bloc countries as they moved from state-sponsored systems toward the free market. The contributors and editors of this exciting volume examine the interrelations between thematic, aesthetic, and infrastructural changes; the globalization of the international cinema marketplace; and the problems and promises arising from the privatization of national cinemas. Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 also addresses the strategies employed for preserving national cinemas and cultures through an analysis of films from the Czech and Slovak republics, the former German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and the former Yugoslavia. The study provides a picture of Eastern European cinema at a critical juncture as well as its connections to the emergent world of transnational media. Contributors include Barton Byg, Alexandra Foamente, Andrew Horton, Dina Iordanova, Ewa Mazierska, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, and Bogdan Stefanescu,

Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027234582

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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Types and stereotypes by Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer Pdf

"Types and stereotypes" is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the "History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe" approaches the region s literatures from five complementary angles, focusing on literature s participation in and reaction to key political events, literary periods and genres, the literatures of cities and sub-regions, literary institutions, and figures of representation. The main objective of the project is to challenge the self-enclosure of national literatures in traditional literary histories, to contextualize them in a regional perspective, and to recover individual works, writers, and minority literatures that national histories have marginalized or ignored. "Types and stereotypes" brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region."

Author : Anikó Imre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135872649

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East European Cinemas by Anikó Imre Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501362507

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The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema by Temenuga Trifonova Pdf

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores contemporary debates around the concepts of 'Europe' and 'European identity' through an examination of recent European films dealing with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence, neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular attention to the figure of the migrant and the ways in which this figure challenges us to rethink Europe and its core Enlightenment values (citizenship, justice, ethics, liberty, tolerance, and hospitality) in a post-national context of ephemerality, volatility, and contingency that finds people desperately looking for firmer markers of identity. The book argues that a compelling case can be made for re-orienting the study of contemporary European cinema around the figure of the migrant viewed both as a symbolic figure (representing post-national citizenship, urbanization, the 'gap' between ethics and justice) and as a figure occupying an increasingly central place in European cinema in general rather than only in what is usually called 'migrant and diasporic cinema'. By drawing attention to the structural and affective affinities between the experience of migrants and non-migrants, Europeans and non-Europeans, Trifonova shows that it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate stories about migration from stories about life under neoliberalism in general

Author : Anikó Imre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118294352

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A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas by Anikó Imre Pdf

A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas 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. Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film cultures Features consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as Albanian and Baltic cinemas, popular genre films, cross-national distribution and aesthetics, animation and documentary Places the cinemas of the region in a European and global context Resists the Cold War classification of Eastern European cinemas as “other” art cinemas by reconnecting them with the main circulation of film studies Includes discussion of such films as Taxidermia, El Perro Negro, 12:08 East of Bucharest Big Tõll, and Breakfast on the Grass and explores the work of directors including Tamás Almási, Walerian Borowczyk, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej ̄u3awski, and Karel Vachek amongst many others

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198742425

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The Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

Featuring nearly three thousand film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world

Author : Richard Dyer,Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135085032

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Popular European Cinema by Richard Dyer,Ginette Vincendeau Pdf

Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and ethnic identities that complicate th equestoin of national cinema, not least with recent developments in formerly communist Eastern Europe and post-colonialist Western Europe. THrough their individual studies, the contribuitots ehr oven up a new area of study, using the medium of film to fucus a wider discussion of popular European culture.

Author : Hajnal Király,Zsolt Győri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527568945

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Postsocialist Mobilities by Hajnal Király,Zsolt Győri Pdf

This volume examines the various forms of mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of mostly native scholars. Divided into four thematic sections, it expands the reader’s understanding of the political transition and the social changes it triggered, the transforming perceptions of gender roles and especially masculinity. The spaces of “in betweenness” and contact zones, whether geographical, interethnic or communicative, (im)mobility and transmedial encounters of Eastern European subjectivity are recurring figures of both cinematic representations and their theoretical analyses. In-depth and transcultural in their nature, the investigations gathered in this volume are informed by political, social and cultural history, genre, gender and spatial theory, cultural studies, sociology and political science, and, of equal importance, the rich personal experience of the authors who witnessed many of the discussed phenomena in “close-up”.