Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989

by Catherine Portuges (Editor), Peter Hames (Editor)

Overview

Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 studies the shifts in the dynamics among film production, exhibition, and reception in Eastern bloc countries as they moved from state-sponsored systems toward the free market. The contributors and editors of this exciting volume examine the interrelations among thematic, aesthetic, and infrastructural changes; the globalization of the international cinema marketplace; and the problems and promises arising from the privatization of national cinemas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592132652
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	01/11/2013
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Catherine Portuges is Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  She is the author of Screen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Márta Mészáros.

Peter Hames is Visiting Professor in Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technology at Staffordshire University and a program adviser to the London Film Festival. He is the author of Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition and The Czechoslovak New Wave and editor of The Cinema of Central Europe and The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer: Dark Alchemy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Peter Homes Catherine Portuges 1

1 Bulgarian Cinema: Optimism in Moderation Dina Iordanova 10

2 The Czech and Slovak Republics: The Velvet Revolution and After Peter Hames 40

3 Is There Still an East German Cinema? Barton Byg 75

4 Memory and Reinvention in Post-Socialist Hungarian Cinema Catherine Portuges 104

5 Searching for Survival and Meaning: Polish Film after 1989 Ewa Mazierska 135

6 Narratives of the Emerging Self: Romania's First Years of Post-totalitarian Cinema Bogdan Stefanescu Sanda Foamete 161

7 The First Five Years with No Plan: Building National Cinema in Ukraine, 1992-1997 Bohdan Y. Nebesio 197

8 Cinema Haunts My Memory: Filmmaking in the Former Yugoslavia Andrew Horton 230

Contributors 263

Index 265