East, West and Centre -

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Résumé :
In East, West and Centre the world's leading scholars in the field assemble to consider the ways in which notions such as East and West, national and transnational, central and marginal are being rethought and reframed in contemporary European cinema.

Biographie:

Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and French-language culture and cinema. He is the author of French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas and 'New Europe' (EUP, 2016) and co-edited Cin?ma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (EUP, 2018), Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) and East, West and Centre: Reframing European Cinema Since 1989 (EUP, 2014).

Todd Herzog is an Associate Professor and Chair of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is co-editor of the Journal of Austrian Studies. His books include Crime Stories (Berghahn, 2009), Rebirth of a Culture (Berghahn, 2008, with Hillary Hope Herzog and Benjamin Lapp) and A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001, with Sander Gilman).

Sommaire:
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: East, West and Centre: 'Mapping Post-1989 European Cinema' Michael Gott and Todd Herzog Part I Redrawing the Lines: De/Recentring Europe 1 The Berlin Wall Revisited: Reframing Historical Space Between East and in Cynthia Beatts's Cycling the Frame (1988), The Invisible Frame (2009) and Bartosz Konopka's Rabbit ? la Berlin (2009) Jenny St?mer 2 Changing Sides: East/West Travesties in Lionel Baier's Comme des voleurs (? l'est) Kris Van Heuckelom 3 Dubbing and Doubling Over: The Disorientation of France in the Films of Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieslowski Alison Rice 4 Challenging the East-West Divide in Ulrich Seidl's Import Export (2007) Nikhil Sathe 5 Fatih Akin's Filmic Visions of a New Europe: Spatial and Aural Constructions of Europe in Im Juli/In July (2000) Berna Gueneli 6 Salami Aleikum - The 'Near East' Meets the 'Middle East' in Central Europe Alexandra Ludewig 7 Cinematic Fairy Tales of Female Mobility in Post-Wall Europe: Hanna v. Mona Aga Skrodzka Part II Border Spaces, Eastern Margins and Eastern Markets: Belonging and the Road to/from Europe 8 Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema: From Allegorical Expressionism to Declined National Cinema Temenuga Trifonova 9 The Point of No Return: From Great Expectations to Great Desperation in New Romanian Cinema Lucian Georgescu 10 'Weirdness', Modernity and the Other Europe in Attenberg (2010, Athina Rachel Tsangari) Jun Okada 11 Lithuania Redirected: New Connections, Businesses and Lifestyles in Cinema since 2000 Renata sukaityte 12 Lessons of Neo-liberalism: Co-productions and the Changing Image of Estonian Cinema Eva N?ripea 13 Decentring Europe from the Fringe: Reimagining Balkan Identities in the Films of the 1990s Danica Jenkins and Kati Tonkin Part III Spectres of the East 14 Through the Lens of Black Humour: A Polish Adam in the Post-Wall World Rimma Garn 15 East Germany Revisited, Reimagined, Repositioned: Representing the GDR in Dominik Graf's Der rote Kakadu (2005) and Christian Petzold's Barbara (2012) Nick Hodgin 16 Barluschke: Towards an East-West Schizo-History Kalani Michell 17 The Limits of Nostalgia and (Trans)National Cinema in Cum mi-am petrecut sf?rsitul lumii (2006) Mihaela Petrescu 18 The Ideal of Ararat: Friendship, Politics and National Origins in Robert Gu?diguian's Le Voyage en Arm?nie Joseph Mai Notes Bibliography Index