European cinema and intertextuality
Subtitle: history, memory and politics
By: Ewa Mazierska
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780230579545
Subjects: Motion pictures; Historical films; Motion pictures and history; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Introduction: Is the Past a Foreign Country?; title: The Burden of the Past and the Lightness of the Present: Dealing with Historic Trauma through Film; title: Our Hitler: New Representations of Hitler in European Films; title: A Clear Dividing Line?: Cinematic Representations of German, Italian and Irish Terrorism; title: From Socialist Realism to Postmodernism: Polish Martial Law of 1981 in Polish and Foreign Films; title: Good-bye Lenin! or Not: Cinematic Representations of the End of Communism; title: Twists of Fate: Secret Agents, Communist Collaborators and Secret Files in German, Polish and Czech films.