Overview

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.

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Author:   E. Mazierska
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780230579545

ISBN 10:   023057954
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   12 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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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