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A Postnationalist Kaleidoscope of European Cinema

by Olle Sjögren (Author)
©2019, Monographs, 232 Pages
The Arts

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«The Reimagined Community» is a comparative study of European cinema and the political shift from national traditions to transnational cooperation. The European peace project is reactivated with a fresh analysis of film cultures as critical history lessons. Nationalism emerged in a close interplay with print media after the Reformation. Today, the movies have become a primary source to explore the postnationalist turn. «The Reimagined Community» replaces narrow specialization with a historical kaleidoscope of culture bound syndromes, changing gender systems, and ethnic conflict fields.

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • Citability of the eBook
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Nationalism – A Historical Parenthesis?
    • The Ancient Cradle of Western Culture
    • The Divide into East and West
    • Religion, Politics, and Nationalism
    • A Postnationalist Turn with Euro-Images
    • A New Community in Three Colors
    • Looking for Culture-Bound Syndromes
    • A Filmosophical Kaleidoscope
    • Ethics, Violence, War
    • Outline, Limitations, References
  • 1 The German History Lesson
    • The Left Opposition in Weimar
    • The Brown Terror in the Streets
    • A Female Spotlight on Hitlerism
    • From Denazification to Critical Analysis
    • Germany Divided Between East and West
    • Her-Story of the Third Reich
    • A Ger-manly Masculinity
    • Reunification and Ostalgie
    • The Sicherheit Syndrome
    • The False Innocence of Austria
    • Collaboration in Central Europe
    • Dark Shadows Over Hungary and Poland
    • Guilty Memories in France
    • The Noble Art of Self-Defense
    • Genocide in a Global Perspective
  • 2 The French Connection: Revolt and Resistance
    • Springtime for the Popular Front
    • The Law of Silent Teamwork
    • The Critical Revision of La Résistance
    • Unveiling the Masculine Mystique
    • International Left Turn
    • 1968 Between Revoltism and Nostalgia
    • The Strike Wave
    • Marx + Jesus = Guédiguian
    • In the Heels of the Precariat
    • The Pressures of Global Competition
    • Revolting Inside the System
    • Complementary Brotherhood
    • Between Multinational and National Fronts
    • The Intergenerational Perspective
  • 3 The English Game of Class and Culture
    • The Peter Pan Syndrome
    • The Angry Young Men
    • Sportsmanship and Foul Play
    • Rebellions in the Pecking Order
    • A Firm for Football Hooligans
    • Ken Loach – A Sober Socialist
    • The Decline of Industrial Masculinity
    • Female Visibility with Humor
    • The Dwindling Charisma of the Royal Family
    • The Erosion of the National Heritage
    • The Misalliance with Hollywood
    • To Be or Not to Be a Gangster
    • Video Nasties Made in England
    • Excellence and Self-Knowledge
  • 4 Russia Between Orthodoxy and Modernity
    • Iconostasis and Iconoclasm
    • Monuments of Socialist Indignation
    • Dziga Vertov and the Cinematic Centaur
    • Folk Tales and Tractor Cult
    • New Models for the Soviet Man
    • The Female Emancipation
    • The Cozy Icon in the Kremlin
    • Destalinization and Thaw
    • The Maximalist Dilemma
    • The Open Eye of Glasnost
    • Perestroika Was a Strange Planet
    • Action Fighters Versus Oligarkhs
    • Police Corruption and Class Conflicts
    • Subcultures and Windows
    • The Nostalgic Masculinity of Nikita Mikhalkov
    • Aleksandr Sokurov’s Dictator Trilogy
    • The Democratic Humor of Eldar Ryazanov
  • 5 National Resistance in Central Europe
    • The Tragic Revolt Aesthetics in Poland
    • Men of Marble/Women of Iron
    • The Socialist Self-Criticism of Kieslowski
    • Open Dialogue with Decalogue
    • A Postsocialist Purgatory
    • Uninvited Guests in Czechoslovakia
    • The Ironic Strategy of Milos Forman
    • The Limits of Czech Levity
    • The Class Struggles in Hungarian Cinema
    • Claustrophobia in Budapest
    • The Pseudo-Revolution in Romania
    • Crimes and Punishments
    • A Postnationalist Self-Image
    • Different Forms of Resistance
  • 6 The Interplay of Religion and Politics
    • The Messianic Vision in Soviet Russia
    • Icon Painter in a Materialist World
    • Looking Back at the Communist Utopia
    • The Privatization of Religiosity
    • The Moral Crisis in post-Soviet Russia
    • Submission Cult and Denazification
    • The Polarization of Left Extremism
    • Radical Shadows in the Rearview Mirror
    • The Need for an Urban Heimat
    • Agnosticism and Crucifixion Humor
    • Kierkegaard and Dreyer
    • The Protestant Renaissance After Dogme 95
    • Children of a Lesser God
    • Remythologization in French Cinema
    • Pilgrims Without Borders
    • The Vanishing Future
  • 7 Visibility, Desire, and Gender
    • The Fallen Woman in Weimar
    • Undermining the Male Hierarchy
    • Between Feminism and Terrorism
    • Film Rebellions in East Germany
    • The Surrealist Vanguard in France
    • The Cinephile Triangle of Desire
    • The Active Look of Agnes Varda
    • Feminist Visibility in Art and Politics
    • Visibility and Distance
    • Self-Restraint in English Cinema
    • Hedonism as Regional Counterculture
    • The Central Line of Feminism
    • The Female Shadowland
    • The Utopian Desire in Soviet Cinema
    • Rural Dilemmas
    • Gender and Media
    • First Love or Party Lust
    • Fascination for Outsiders
  • 8 Closets, Gaydars, Rainbows
    • A Semipublic Closet with Gaydar
    • A Third Sex Before the Third Reich
    • The Fassbinder Syndrome
    • The Homophile Vanguard in Paris
    • Love and Death in the Sign of Aids
    • Political Activism
    • Cross-Dressing and Transphobia
    • The Floating Borders of Bisexuality
    • The Lesbian Love Story
    • The Prison House of Labels
    • The Last Taboo
    • A Militant Front over England
    • Alliances and Rainbows
    • Russia Beyond Gayropa
  • 9 Economic Mobility and Transnational Balance
    • Cracks Before the Fall of the Wall
    • Human Trafficking = Illegal Mobility
    • The Option of Work or Love
    • The Transnational Merry-Go-Round
    • Journeys of Hope and Water
    • Smugglers Are Human Beings
    • The Rise of Solidarity Crimes in France
    • The Reluctant Europeanization of England
    • The Limbo of Asylum Seekers
    • No Man Is a Migratory Bird
    • Ethnic Mobility in the Sign of the Stork
    • The Black Fascination in France
    • The Price of German Productivity
    • A Greek Demythologization
    • The Eurasian Mobility
    • French Liberté over the Mediterranean
  • 10 The Elusive Integration Process
    • Outsidership in Denmark
    • Cinema Beur and Banlieu in France
    • Burning and Looting in the Cité
    • Breaking the Female Confinement
    • The Headscarf Dilemma
    • The Assimilation of Abdellatif Kechiche
    • Interethnic Coexistence
    • The Black Protest in England
    • Emergence of a Brown Sisterhood
    • From Paki Bashing to Counterterrorism
    • Gastarbeiterkino in West Germany
    • Deutschkei – The Family Comedy
    • The Ethnic Interplay of Fatih Akin
    • Honor-Related Violence
    • The Educator as Russian Paragon
    • Integrating Hooligans
  • 11 Spirals of War and Terrorism
    • The Breakup of Tito’s Yugoslavia
    • The Ethno-nationalist Powder Keg
    • The Healing of Gendered War Crimes
    • Therapy Between Wars
    • Anti-war Films Made in the EU
    • British Military on Muslim Territories
    • Islamist Shadows Over England
    • The Danish War Front
    • The French Wounds from Algeria
    • A Cinematic Distance to Holy Wars
    • Jihad Strikes Back in France
    • Terrorism or Anarchism
    • Bad Wars in New Russia
    • Revisions of the Great Purgatory
  • The Prisoner’s Dilemma
    • The Western Border After Brexit
    • The French Play with Rigidity
    • No Master Race in Germany
    • Radicalization in Holland
    • Russian Patriotism with Xenophobia
    • A Technocratic Bear Syndrome
    • Separatism in Catalonia
    • The Nationalist Split in Ukraine
    • Yin Yang Europe
  • Bibliography
Pages:
232
Year:
2019
ISBN (PAPERBACK):
9783631786031 (Active)
ISBN (EPUB):
9783631800225 (Active)
ISBN (PDF):
9783631800218 (Active)
DOI:
10.3726/b16068
Language:
English
Keywords:
Terrorism, film history, European culture, Peace project, Ethnic integration, Filmosophy
Published:
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. 232 pp.

Olle Sjögren, Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Gothenburg University. PhD dissertation on American film comics. Published books (in Swedish) about Marxism and cinema, film violence, youth cultures, television entertainment, and Chinese cinemas.

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