Imre - A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas

The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas showcase the rich film heritages of various countries across the globe. Each volume sets the agenda for what is now known as world cinema while challenging Hollywoods lock on the popular and scholarly imagination. Whether exploring Spanish, German, or Chinese film, or the broader traditions of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and Latin America the 2025 newly commissioned essays comprising each volume include coverage of the dominant themes of canonical, controversial, and contemporary films; stars, directors, and writers; key influences; reception; and historiography and scholarship. Written in a sophisticated and authoritative style by leading experts they will appeal to an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

A Companion to German Cinema, edited by Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch

A Companion to Chinese Cinema, edited by Yingjin Zhang

A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas, edited by Anik Imre

A Companion to Spanish Cinema, edited by Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic

This edition first published 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Eastern European cinemas / edited by Anik Imre.
p. cm. (Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3725-9 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Motion picturesEurope, Eastern. I. Imre, Anik.
PN1993.5.E82C77 2012
791.430947dc23

2011044672

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Alice Bardan received her doctorate from the University of Southern California in 2011. Her research and teaching interests are in European and East European media, world cinema, and new media. Her publications appeared in the edited volume Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2007) and in the refered journal New Cinemas (Intellect, 2008). In addition, she has new articles in Branding Post-Communist Nations (Routledge, 2011), Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism, Not Necessarily the News? News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe, and Popular Communication.
Melis Behlil is Assistant Professor and department head at the Radio, TV and Cinema Department of Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey, as well as a member of the NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) Steering Committee. Her research interests are film industries, production studies, and globalization. In addition to teaching and other academic duties, she writes film reviews for various publications, co-hosts a weekly radio show, and is a FIPRESCI member.
John Cunningham teaches film studies at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom and is the editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema. His publications include Hungarian Cinema: From Coffeehouse to Multiplex (2004) and numerous articles on Eastern European cinema. Visions of Europe, his study of Istvn Szab, is awaiting publication. In November 2010 he was presented with the Pro Hungaria Cultura award for his services to Hungarian art and culture.
Greg De Cuir, Jr. is the managing editor of NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies (Amsterdam University Press). His writing has appeared in Cineaste, Jump Cut, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, and KinoKultura as well as other international publications, and his book Yugoslav Black Wave: Polemical Cinema from 196372 in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Film Center Serbia) was nominated for Edition of the Year at the 2011 Belgrade International Book Fair. Mr de Cuir is a member of FIPRESCI and is also the selector/programmer for Alternative Film/Video Belgrade.
Shekhar Deshpande is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at Arcadia University. His main interests are in world cinema, visual cultures, and philosophy of film. His work has appeared in Senses of Cinema, Journal of European Cinema, Widescreen, and Film International. He is working on a book on anthology film.
Nikolina Dobreva holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of MassachusettsAmherst. She has researched and published on Romani representation in international cinema and television. Nikolina is currently setting up an archive/research website on Eastern European cinema and media.
Michael Goddard is a lecturer in media studies at the University of Salford. His current research centers on Polish and European cinema and visual culture and he is reviews editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema (SEEC). He has just completed a book on the cinema of the Chilean-born filmmaker Ral Ruiz. His research on Deleuzes aesthetic and film theories has resulted in a number of publications. He has also been studying the fringes of popular music focusing on groups such as The Fall, Throbbing Gristle, and Laibach. Another strand of his research concerns Italian post-autonomist political thought and media theory, particularly the work of Franco Berardi (Bifo). He is now conducting a research project called Radical Ephemera, examining radical media ecologies in film, television, radio, and radical politics in the 1970s.