Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2018), 268 pp.
Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance, 12
ISBN 978-3-631-75517-4 (pdf); 978-3-631-75029-2 (print)
"This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. They present essays on, among others, Basque cinema; gendered controversies in post-communist small cinemas in Slovakia and Czech Republic; ethnic stereotypes in the works of Polish filmmakers; stereotypical representation of women in Japanese avant-garde; post-communist political myths in Hungary; the separatist movements of Catalonia; people in diasporas and during migrations. In view of these timely topics, the book touches on the most serious social and political problems. The films discussed provide an excellent platform for enhancing debates on politics, gender, migration and new aesthetics in cinema at departments of history, sociology, literature and film." (Back cover)
Introduction / Janina Falkowska, 9
PART 1: POLITICS IN SMALL CINEMAS
1 A call for freedom in the Spanish cinema (from a local perspective) / Iwona Kolasiñska-Pasterczyk, 19
2 The troubled image: The conflict in Northern Ireland as seen by the Irish and the British / Karolina Kosiñska, 33
3 Are they terrorists or victims? Basque cinema, violence and memory / Katixa Agirre, 45
4 A traditional stereotype for modern Spanish politics: The Basque pro-independence coalition Herri Batasuna and its depiction in cinema / Gorka Etxebarria and Josu Martinez, 57
5 New content and aesthetics in small cinemas: The case of the Basque-language films 80 egunean and Loreak / Iratxe Fresneda & Amaia Nerekan, 71
6 The image of living of local people in the film Timbuktu: Between the literal and the symbol / Paulina Cichoñ, 85
PART 2: GENDER AND SEXUALITY
7 Tourists, migrants and travellers: The role of women in reshaping Slovak (cinematic) identity / Jana Dudková, 101
8 Reality of corporeality: Female corporeality in recent Slovak social film dramas / Katarína Mišíková, 115
9 Before coming out: Queer representations in contemporary Polish cinema / Sebastian Jagielski, 125
10 To be or not to be yourself: Turkish diaspora and the foreign land - stereotypes, nation and (hetero)norms / Bartlomiej Nowak, 141
PART 3: STEREOTYPES AND SOCIAL POLARITIES
11 Exposed and concealed Roma conflict: Representation of contemporary Roma conflicts in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary / Jadwiga Huèková, 153
12 Stereotypes and attempts at challenging them in Papusza (2013) by Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze / Iwona Grodz, 167
PART 4: THEORY AND SMALL CINEMAS
13 Migrants and exiles in the films by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz / Krzysztof Loska, 181
14 From controversy to contemplation: The thematic areas of the new Japanese avant-garde and experimental film in comparison to the "old masters" of Japanese avant-garde / Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, 195
15 Mockumentary cinema and its political might: Self-reflexivity and carnivalesque in the films of Michael Moore and Sacha Baron Cohen / Janina Falkowska, 211
PART 5: AESTHETICS OF NEW SMALL FILMS
16 De-centered subversion: Hukkle and the challenging of revisionist historiography / Phil Mann, 223
17 "I don't know": Linking past and present, the personal and the nation, and movement in Sterlin Harjo's This May be the Last Time / Chris LaLonde, 235
18 Post-industrial landscape in the "Silesian cinema": Between the aesthetic and cultural experience / Ilona Copik, 245
19 Once upon a time there used to live a people… Neighborhooders and The Heritage as fairy tales about the Polish "excluded" / Marta Stañczyk, 259
PART 1: POLITICS IN SMALL CINEMAS
1 A call for freedom in the Spanish cinema (from a local perspective) / Iwona Kolasiñska-Pasterczyk, 19
2 The troubled image: The conflict in Northern Ireland as seen by the Irish and the British / Karolina Kosiñska, 33
3 Are they terrorists or victims? Basque cinema, violence and memory / Katixa Agirre, 45
4 A traditional stereotype for modern Spanish politics: The Basque pro-independence coalition Herri Batasuna and its depiction in cinema / Gorka Etxebarria and Josu Martinez, 57
5 New content and aesthetics in small cinemas: The case of the Basque-language films 80 egunean and Loreak / Iratxe Fresneda & Amaia Nerekan, 71
6 The image of living of local people in the film Timbuktu: Between the literal and the symbol / Paulina Cichoñ, 85
PART 2: GENDER AND SEXUALITY
7 Tourists, migrants and travellers: The role of women in reshaping Slovak (cinematic) identity / Jana Dudková, 101
8 Reality of corporeality: Female corporeality in recent Slovak social film dramas / Katarína Mišíková, 115
9 Before coming out: Queer representations in contemporary Polish cinema / Sebastian Jagielski, 125
10 To be or not to be yourself: Turkish diaspora and the foreign land - stereotypes, nation and (hetero)norms / Bartlomiej Nowak, 141
PART 3: STEREOTYPES AND SOCIAL POLARITIES
11 Exposed and concealed Roma conflict: Representation of contemporary Roma conflicts in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary / Jadwiga Huèková, 153
12 Stereotypes and attempts at challenging them in Papusza (2013) by Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze / Iwona Grodz, 167
PART 4: THEORY AND SMALL CINEMAS
13 Migrants and exiles in the films by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz / Krzysztof Loska, 181
14 From controversy to contemplation: The thematic areas of the new Japanese avant-garde and experimental film in comparison to the "old masters" of Japanese avant-garde / Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, 195
15 Mockumentary cinema and its political might: Self-reflexivity and carnivalesque in the films of Michael Moore and Sacha Baron Cohen / Janina Falkowska, 211
PART 5: AESTHETICS OF NEW SMALL FILMS
16 De-centered subversion: Hukkle and the challenging of revisionist historiography / Phil Mann, 223
17 "I don't know": Linking past and present, the personal and the nation, and movement in Sterlin Harjo's This May be the Last Time / Chris LaLonde, 235
18 Post-industrial landscape in the "Silesian cinema": Between the aesthetic and cultural experience / Ilona Copik, 245
19 Once upon a time there used to live a people… Neighborhooders and The Heritage as fairy tales about the Polish "excluded" / Marta Stañczyk, 259
