Popular cinemas in East Central Europe : film cultures and histories / / edited by Dorota Ostrowska, Francesco Pitassio and Zsuzsanna Varga

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2017; London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.430943
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Europe, Central - History - 20th century; Motion pictures - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): OstrowskaDorota <1973->; PitassioFrancesco; VargaZsuzsanna
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-326), filmography (pages 327-345), and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1. Politics of Popular Cinema in the Interwar Period. Chapter 1. Czech Historical Film and Historical Traditions : The Merry Wives (1938) / Ivan Klimeš -- Chapter 2. Starlets and Heart-throbs : Hungarian Cinema in the Interwar Period / Zsuzsanna Varga -- Part 2. Towards Socialism: Continuities and Ruptures. Chapter 3. The Stripping of His Charms : The Stability and Transformation of Oldrˇich Nový's Star Image (1936-55) / Šárka Gmiterková -- Chapter 4. Transformations : Hungarian Popular Cinema in the 1950s / Balázs Varga -- Chapter 5. Postwar Czechoslovak Comedy : The Autonomisation of Parody, and Lemonade Joe (1964) / Petr Szczepanik -- Part 3. Socialist Film Cultures. Chapter 6. How To Be Loved? Three Takes on 'The Popular' in Socialist and Non-Socialist Cinema : The Popular and The People / Paul Coates -- Chapter 7. 'Humanist Screens': Foreign Cinema in Socialist Poland (1945-56) / Dorota Ostrowska -- Chapter 8. Poland's Wild West and East : Polish Westerns of the 1960s / Mikołaj Kunicki -- Chapter 9. Film in Full Gallop : Aesthetics and the Equine in Poland's Epic Cinema / Matilda Mroz -- Chapter 10. The Czechoslovak-East German Co-production Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel/Three Wishes for Cinderella : A Transnational Tale / Pavel Skopal -- Chapter 11. The Paradox of Popularity : The Case of the Socialist Crime Movie in Hungary / Gábor Gelencsér -- Part 4. Out of Socialism: Co-habiting Models of Popular Cinema. Chapter 12. Popular Nostalgia : On Alternative Modes of Popular Cinema in Post-1989 Czech Production / Francesco Pitassio -- Chapter 13. The Power of Love : Polish Post-communist Popular Cinema / Elżbieta Ostrowska -- Chapter 14. When Walls Fall : Families in Hungarian Films of the New Europe / Clara Orban -- Part 5. National Cinemas and Globalised Film Cultures. Chapter 15. The 'Hollywood Factor' in the Most Popular Hungarian Films of the Period 1996-2014 : When a Small Post-communist Cinema Meets a Mainstream One / Andrea Virginás -- Chapter 16. The Exhibition of Popular Cinema in the Czech Republic and Slovakia : After 1989 Within the Context of the European Union / Jan Hanzlík.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films from these countries - via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative channels - there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the region.Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary, the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from 1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies and the relationship between the popular and the national, it charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular cinema over time."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe
• ISBN: 1-350-98756-5; 1-78672-239-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511415603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International library of the moving image ; ; 40.