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European Cinema and Intertextuality

History, Memory and Politics

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  • © 2011

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  1. Ewa Mazierska
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Is the Past a Foreign Country?

    • Ewa Mazierska
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Burden of the Past and the Lightness of the Present: Dealing with Historic Trauma through Film

    • Ewa Mazierska
    Pages 22-59

  4. ‘Our Hitler’: New Representations of Hitler in European Films

    • Ewa Mazierska
    Pages 60-96

  5. A Clear Dividing Line?: Cinematic Representations of German, Italian and Irish Terrorism

    • Ewa Mazierska
    Pages 97-134

  6. From Socialist Realism to Postmodernism: Polish Martial Law of 1981 in Polish and Foreign Films

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    Pages 135-173

  7. Goodbye Lenin or Not: Cinematic Representations of the End of Communism

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    Pages 174-206

  8. Twists of Fate: Secret Agents, Communist Collaborators and Secret Files in German, Polish and Czech Films

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    Pages 207-246

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 247-285
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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.

About the author

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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