European Visions : Small Cinemas in Transition / Janelle Blankenship, Tobias Nagl

• HerausgeberIn: Blankenship, Janelle; Nagl, Tobias
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Film (Transcript (Firm))
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and »small cinemas« relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization. Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Deleuze & Guattari's concept of the »minor«, contributions address the relationship of small cinemas to Hollywood, the role of history and memory, and the politics of place in post-Socialist cinemas.

»Die Globalität von Herausgebern, Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes ist beeindruckend.« Hans Helmut Prinzler, www.hhprinzler.de, 28.07.2015

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 List of Illustrations 9 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction: Towards a Politics of Scale 15 The Risk Environment of Small-Nation Filmmaking 49 Maltese Cinema? 65 Luxembourg's Film Finance Model, Andy Bausch, and Cultural Identity 85 The Best of Both Worlds 101 Anxiety, Memory, and Place in Belgian Cinema 115 Varieties of Smallness 129 At the Crossroads of Time 141 The Archival Impulse and the Digitization of European Film History 151 Framed by Definitions 173 In the Country of Panpan 187 A Decade with the New Romanian Cinema 197 "A Typical Icelandic Murder?" 213 How Corto Maltese Died 229 Exposed: A Short History of Austrian Science Fiction Film 249 The "Quixote" Myth and the New Eastern Europe 259 The Moral Microhistory of Post-Communism 285 Polish Film Culture in Transition 299 Desires and Memories of a Small Man 317 Félix Guattari and Minor Cinema 337 Veit Helmer's Tuvalu, Cinema Babel, and the (Dis-)location of Europe 351 At the Crossroads of Genre and Identity 367 National or Transnational German Cinema Post-1989? 389 The Cinema of the Abject and the Cinema of Capitalist Fantasy in Poland 399 Contributor Biographies 411