Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Contemporary Cinema at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (2011). Lars Kristensen is a Research Associate at the Film and Media Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. He is editor of Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture: Moving Images of Postcommunism (2012). Eva Naripea is affiliated with the Estonian Academy of Arts and with the research group of cultural and literary theory at the Estonian Literary Museum. She is co-editor, with Andreas Trossek, of Via Transversa: Lost Cinema of the Former Eastern Bloc (2008) and, with Ewa Mazierska and Mari Laaniste, of a special issue of Kinokultura: New Russian Cinema journal on Estonian cinema (2010).

• Introduction: Postcolonial Theory and the Postcommunist WorldEwa Mazierska, Lars Kristensen, Eva Näripea‘If Your Car Is Stolen, It Will Soon Be in Poland’: Criminal Representations of Poland and the Poles in German Fictional Film of the 1990sKristin KoppNeighbours (almost) Like Us: Representation of Germans, Germannness and Germany in Polish Communist and Postcommunist Cinema Ewa Mazierska‘I’m at Home Here’: Sudeten Germans in Czech Postcommunist Cinema Petra HanákováJánošík: The Cross-Border HeroPeter HamesFrom Nationalism to Rapprochement? Hungary and Romania OnscreenJohn CunninghamPostcolonial Fantasies. Imagining the Balkans: The Polish Popular Cinema of W?adys?aw PasikowskiEl?bieta OstrowskaThe Distant among Us: Kolonel Bunker (1998) in a Postcolonial ContextBruce WilliamsNew Neighbours, Old Habits, and Nobody’s Children: Croatia in the Face of Old YugoslaviaVlastimir Sudar‘Narcissism of Minor Differences’? Problems of ‘Mapping’ the Neighbour in Post-Yugoslav Serbian CinemaSpela ZajecThe ‘Near-Abroad’ Neighbour in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Urga (1991)Lars KristensenOf Nazis, Barons and Bolsheviks: Envisioning the Other in Latvian CinemaMaruta Z. VitolsThe Women Who Weren’t There: Russians in Late Soviet Estonian CinemaEva NäripeaBibliographyIndex