European Cinema and Intertextuality History, Memory and Politics

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.

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.

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
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