This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the Second World War, Armenian Genocide, anti-Semitic attacks in Poland, European terrorism of the 1970s, and the end of communism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 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 Works Cited Index
Über den Autor
EWA MAZIERSKA is Professor of Contemporary Cinema at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over ten monographs and edited collections, including
Nabokov’s Cinematic Afterlife (2011),
Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (2010) and, with Laura Rascaroli,
Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (2006). She is Associate Editor of
Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
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