A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas -- Contents -- Notes on the Editor and Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Eastern European Cinema From No End to the End (As We Know It) -- What Is and What (Really) Was "Eastern European Cinema"? -- First Intervention: Un-nationalizing Cinemas -- Second Intervention: A Case for European (Post-)Socialism -- Third Intervention: East European Cinema within Global Film Studies -- Conclusion and Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Part I New Theoretical and Critical Frameworks -- 2 Body Horror and Post-Socialist Cinema: György Pálfi's Taxidermia -- References -- 3 El perro negro : Transnational Readings of Database Documentaries from Spain -- The Way In -- The Transnational Stage -- The Spanish Context for Reading Documentaries -- Re-Imagining Archival Histories -- Tren de sombras (1997) -- La niebla en las palmeras (2005) -- El perro negro (2005) -- References -- Further Reading -- 4 Did Somebody Say Communism in the Classroom? or The Value of Analyzing Totality in Recent Serbian Cinema -- From Communism to Ethnic Nationalism -- From Ethnic Nationalism to Neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Laughing into an Abyss: Cinema and Balkanization -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 6 Jewish Identities and Generational Perspectives -- Somewhere in Europe revisited -- The Last Stop -- István Szabó's Father : An Absent Generation -- Related East European Production -- Filmmaking after 1989: Generational Perspectives -- Kertész, Spielberg, and Lanzmann -- Documentary Filmmaking -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 7 Aftereffects of 1989: Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) and Romanian Cinema -- Context: Cinematic Reconfigurations of 1989 -- Understanding the Reception of 12:08 East of Bucharest in Romania: Was There, or Was There Not an Event?.

The Question of Making and Saying an Event: Virtuality and Simulacrum -- The Use of Language in 12:08 -- Post-national Pastiche and Cinematic Realism -- Notes -- References -- 8 Cinema Beyond Borders: Slovenian Cinema in a World Context -- Slovenian Cinema as Small Cinema -- When Small Means Invisible -- Cinema of National Allegory: Damjan Kozole -- Beyond the National in Small Cinema -- Notes -- References -- Part II Historical and Spatial Redefinitions -- 9 Center and Periphery, or How Karel Vachek Formed a New Government -- Major and Minor, Nonfiction and Fiction -- From Center to Periphery -- A Second Society -- Afterword -- Note -- Filmography -- Works Cited -- 10 The Polish Black Series Documentary and the British Free Cinema Movement -- The Polish "October Spring" -- The Czarna Seria - Critical Social Documentaries in a Socialist State -- Polish Documentary Film, The Thaw and the "October Spring" -- Polish documentary between East and West during the Cold War -- Czarna seria and Free Cinema -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 11 Socialists in Outer Space: East German Film's Venusian Adventure -- 12 Red Shift: New Albanian Cinema and its Dialogue with the Old -- Before the Fall -- From Void to Void -- After the Pyramid -- The Old and the New -- References -- Further Reading -- 13 National Space, (Trans)National Cinema: Estonian Film in the 1960s -- (Trans)National Cinema -- National Space -- Nation-Space: Back to the Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14 For the Peace, For a New Man, For a Better World! Italian Leftist Culture and Czechoslovak Cinema, 1945-1968 -- Notes -- References -- Part III Aesthetic (Re)visions -- 15 The Impossible Polish New Wave and its Accursed Émigré Auteurs: Borowczyk, Polański, Skolimowski, and Żuławski -- Introduction -- The Impossible Polish New Wave -- Generations of Exile and Accursed Auteurs.

Borowczyk, Surrealism, and Eroticism -- Polański, Skolimowski, and the Polish Cinema of the Absurd -- Żuławski and the Cinema of Expression -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 16 Documentary and Industrial Decline in Hungary: The "Ózd Series" of Tamás Almási -- Notes -- References -- The Ózd series by Tamás Almási -- 17 Investigating the Past, Envisioning the Future: An Exploration of Post-1991 Latvian Documentary -- Introduction -- Latvia's Documentary Past -- The 1990s and Beyond: A Phoenix Rising out of the Ashes -- A Common Theme -- Future Directions for Documentary -- Notes -- References -- 18 Eastern European Historical Epics: Genre Cinema and the Visualization of a Heroic National Past -- Introduction -- Genre -- The Historical Epic -- Eastern European Epics: Generic Conventions -- Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire in Eastern European Epics -- Eastern European Epics: Local Specificity of the Genre -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- 19 Nation, Gender, and History in Latvian Genre Cinema -- … A Glimpse into the Launch … -- … Genres of the Postcolonial Cinematic ImagiNation … -- … Stalinist 1950s: Latvian Riflemen, Adventures, and Biopics -- … Thaw, New Genres and Camerawork: Mediating the "national" … -- … Film Adaptation, Literary Canon and National Memory … -- … Soviet Latvian Detective … -- … Freedom and Cinema … -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 20 A Comparative Study: Rein Raamat's Big Tõll and Priit Pärn's Luncheon on the Grass -- The Problems of Context -- Who Can Read between the Lines? -- Rein Raamat's Big Tõll -- Priit Pärn's Luncheon on the Grass -- Notes -- References -- 21 The Yugoslav Black Wave: The History and Poetics of Polemical Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia -- Yugoslav History and Context -- Black Wave Poetics -- Transnational Trends and Connections -- Notes -- References.

Further Reading -- Part IV Industries and Institutions -- 22 Follow the Money - Financing Contemporary Cinema in Romania -- Introduction -- Domestic Financing - State System -- Domestic Financing - Private Enterprise -- International Funding -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 23 An Alternative Model of Film Production: Film Units in Poland after World War Two -- What was a Film Unit? -- Checks and Balances -- Why Film Units in Poland? -- Notes -- References -- 24 The Hussite Heritage Film: A Dream for all Czech Seasons -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 25 International Co-productions as Productions of Heterotopias -- Le Départ: Leaving for the West and Finding a Promised Land in Cinema -- Birds, Orphans and Fools: Creating a Countercultural Enclave -- The Test of Pilot Pirx : Producing an "Other Space" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 26 East is East? New Turkish Cinema and Eastern Europe -- Turkey and Europe -- A Brief History of Turkish Cinema -- (Eastern) European Influences on Turkish Cinema -- Financial Connections -- Notes -- References -- Index.