Realism and its Discontents. Thomas Ballhausen and Janelle Blankenship -- Industry/Funding. The Risk Environment of Small-Nation Filmmaking / Mette Hjort ; Maltese Cinema? Politics and Identity on Screen from Independence to EU Accession / Charlie Cauchi ; Luxembourg's Film Finance Model, Andy Bausch, and Cultural Identity / Gérard Kraus ; The Best of Both Worlds: Taking Advantage of Two Linguistic Traditions in Irish Film / Heather Macdougall -- History/Memory. Anxiety, Memory, and Place in Belgian Cinema / Philip Mosley ; Varieties of Smallness: A Swedish Art Film (Persona), a Polish Documentary (Hear My Cry) / Paul Coates ; At the Crossroads of Time: Memoirs and Becoming in Benone Todica's Documentary Our Journey / Lenuta Giukin ; The Archival Impulse and the Digitization of European Film History: The European Film Gateway Project / Thomas Ballhausen and Janelle Blankenship -- Realism and its Discontents. Polish Film Culture in Transition: On the "Private Films" of Andrzej Kondratiuk (1985-1996) / Larson Powell ; In the Country of Panpan: Romanian Dark Fun Cinema in and out of Focus / Călin-Andrei Mihailescu ; A Decade with the New Romanian Cinema: Stories of Life in an Extramoral Sense / Rodica Ieta -- Genre/Adaptation. "A Typical Icelandic Murder?" The "Criminal" Adaptation of Jar City / Björn Nordfjörd ; How Corto Maltese Died: Wayfaring Strangers on the Frontiers of Europe in Milcho Manchevski's Dust / Zoran Maric ; Exposed: A Short History of Austrian Science Fiction Film / Thomas Ballhausen ; The "Quixote" Myth and the New Eastern Europe: A Hermeneutic Study Based on Film / Jorge Latorre, Antonio Martínez Illán and Oleksandr Pronkevich -- Small Screens/Private Cinema. The Moral Microhistory of Post-Communism: Zanussi's Weekend Stories / Larson Powell ; Polish Film Culture in Transition: On the "Private Films" of Andrzej Kondratiuk (1985-1996) / Janina Falkowska. The Cinema of the Abject and the Cinema of Capitalist Fantasy in Poland / Renata Šukaityte -- Beyond the National. Félix Guattari and Minor Cinema / Gary Genosko ; Veit Helmer's Tuvalu, Cinema Babel, and the (Dis-)location of Europe / Janelle Blankenship and Tobias Nagl ; At the Crossroads of Genre and Identity: An Aesthetics of Distance in Thomas Arslan's From Afar / Angelica Fenner ; National or Transnational German Cinema Post-1989?: The Films of Helke Misselwitz and Sibylle Schönemann / Ute Lischke ; The Cinema of the Abject and the Cinema of Capitalist Fantasy in Poland / Janina Falkowska.
Summary:
This volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and "small cinemas" relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization. Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Deleuze & Guattari's concept of the "minor", contributions address the relationship of small cinemas to Hollywood, the role of history and memory, and the politics of place in post-Socialist cinemas.
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