European Cinema and Intertextuality [electronic resource] : History, Memory and Politics /
Mazierska, E.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
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.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Civilization—History.
Motion pictures—History.
Film genres.
Motion pictures and television.
Performing arts.
European Cinema and TV.
Cultural History.
Film History.
Genre.
Screen Studies.
Performing Arts.