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A recently published book dealing with the film landscape of East European countries delivers an exciting insight as well in film historical aspects as in recent cinematic works:
 

Anikó Imre: East European Cinemas. London & New York: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

The latest volume in the AFI Film Readers series presents a long-overdue reassessment of East European cinemas from theoretical, psychoanalytic and gender perspectives. Charting the dramatic changes and the deep continuities that have characterized the cinemas of Eastern Europe in recent decades, the essays in "East European Cinema" question and revaluate such notions as the 'European', 'postcommunism' and 'national cinema'. The essays are arranged in three groups that target the key issues: an alternative to reductive understandings of East and Central European politics as they inform cinema; the transition from state-funded modernism to global, international cinema; and the key role of historiography in relation to East and Central European film.

Anikó Imre, Ph.D. 2001, Instructor, University of Washington-Tacoma
Dissertation: Allegories of Transition: Feminism and Postcolonial East European Cinemas


Table of Contents

Anikó Imre, "Introduction: East European Cinemas in New Perspectives"

PART 1: Gender Identity and Representation

1. Katarzyna Marciniak, "Second Worldness and Transnational Feminist Practices: Agnieszka Holland's A Woman Alone"

2. Marguerite Waller, "What's in Your Head: 'History' and 'Nation' in Ibolya Fekete's Bolse vita and Ghetto Art's Making the Walls Come Down"

3. Tomislav Z. Longinović, "Playing the Western Eye: Balkan Masculinity and Post-Yugoslav-War Cinema"

4. Elżbieta H. Oleksy, "The Politics of Representing Gender in Post-World War II Polish Cinema and Visual Art"

5. Petra Hanáková, "Voices from Another World: Feminine Space and Masculine Intrusion in Sedmikrásky and Vrazda ing. Certa."

PART 2: (Post)modernist Continuities

6. Melinda Szaloky, "Somewhere in Europe: Exile and Orphanage in Post-World War II Hungarian Cinema"

7. Dušan Bjelić, "Global Aesthetics and the Serbian Cinema of the 1990s"

8. Catherine Portuges, "Traumatic Memory, Jewish Identity: Remapping the Past in Hungarian Cinema"

9. Peter Hames, "The Ironies of History: The Czech Experience"

10. András Bálint Kovács, "Gábor Bódy: Precursor of the Digital Age"

11. Ágnes Pethő, "Chaos, Intermediality, Allegory: The Cinema of Mircea Daneliuc"

PART 3: Regional Visions

12. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, "Reframing Europe's Double Border"

13. Roumiana Deltcheva, "Reliving the Past in Recent East European Cinemas"

14. Christina Stojanova, "Fragmented Discourses: Young Cinema from Central and Eastern Europe"

15. Dina Iordanova, "The Cinema of Eastern Europe: Strained Loyalties, Elusive Clusters"