Beyond Eastern Noir

Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas

Anna Estera Mrozewicz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5226-7 (ISBN)

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Addressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension. Departing from the dark and lawless stereotypes that have characterised much of ‘Eastern noir’, the book presents Russia and Eastern Europe as imagined spaces of rich and previously neglected cinematic diversity. Cross-disciplinary in its approach, with in-depth case studies of films, documentaries and television dramas like Lilya 4-ever, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and Occupied, this book sheds light on a variety of differing perspectives and considers how increasingly transnational affinities prompt a reimagining of Norden’s eastern neighbours.

Anna Estera Mrozewicz is a scholar in Scandinavian Studies and Assistant Professor at the Department of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Previously, she pursued post-doctoral studies at the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen (2010–12). She has published extensively on Danish and Nordic literature and cinema, including Nordic/Eastern European transnational identities and films of Carl Th. Dreyer.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Iron Curtain effect: Nordic Eastern noirChapter 1: Borders: Russia and Eastern Europe as a crime sceneChapter 2: Boundaries: Infiltrated identitiesChapter 3: The Baltic boundaryChapter 4: Guilt and shame in (trans)national spacesChapter 5: Embodying the fear of Russia: The militarised bodyChapter 6: Polish spectres in our house: Revisiting the Nordic metaphor of the homeAfterword: Beyond Eastern noir: Toward a new (cinematic) spaceBibliographyFilmography

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5226-4 / 1474452264
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5226-7 / 9781474452267
Zustand	Neuware