European cinema and intertextuality: history, memory and politics

"European Cinema and Intertextuality offers an original and up-to-date approach to the representation of history through film. It provides an interpretation of a number of feature films representing crucial events and personalities from European history in the twentieth century. This includes t...

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Beteilige Person: Mazierska, Ewa 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Houndmills Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"European Cinema and Intertextuality offers an original and up-to-date approach to the representation of history through film. It provides an interpretation of a number of feature films representing crucial events and personalities from European history in the twentieth century. This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland after the Second World War, European terrorism of the 1970s, and the end of communism. Films discussed include Éloge de l'amour and Passion by Jean-Luc Godard, Ararat by Atom Egoyan, The Baader Meinhof Complex by Uli Edel, Moonlighting by Jerzy Skolimowski, 12:08 East of Bucharest by Corneliu Porumboiu and Kawasaki Rose by Jan Hrebejk"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Is the Past a Foreign Country? -- The Burden of the Past and the Lightness of the Present: Dealing with Historic Trauma through Film -- Our Hitler: New Representations of Hitler in European Films -- A Clear Dividing Line?: Cinematic Representations of German, Italian and Irish Terrorism -- From Socialist Realism to Postmodernism: Polish Martial Law of 1981 in Polish and Foreign Films -- Good-bye Lenin! or Not: Cinematic Representations of the End of Communism -- Twists of Fate: Secret Agents, Communist Collaborators and Secret Files in German, Polish and Czech films
Umfang:XI, 285 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780230579545
023057954X