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A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas
Anik Imre
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Description for A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Imre, Aniko. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 181 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1358.
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.
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 ... Read more
- 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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781444337259
SKU
V9781444337259
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About Anik Imre
Anikó Imre is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies at University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Her books include East European Cinemas (2005); Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (co-authored with Katarzyna Marciniak and Áine O’Healy, 2007); Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe (2009); and Popular Television in Eastern and Southern ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas
"Imre’s volume will doubtlessly prove to be an indispensible resource for scholars and educators alike, and one can only hope that the marvelous scholarship that abounds in the space of this volume will inspire further research into the cinema of the 'other' Europe." (Film International, 5 December 2013) "This is an extremely scholarly work which will be welcomed ... Read more