After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, show the kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Europe. How did these cinematic images contribute to shaping the new societies emerging from the ashes of war, both in the Western and in the Eastern bloc? Why were they so crucial in framing and regulating new places and practices, political systems, economic dynamics, educational frameworks, and memory communities? This edited volume explores the multiple ways nonfiction cinema reconfigured public spaces, collective participation, democratisation, and governmentality between 1944 and 1956. Looking back at it through a transnational perspective and the critical category of spatiality, nonfiction cinema appears in a new light: simultaneously as a specifically situated and as a highly mobile medium, it was a fundamental agent in reshaping Europe's shared identity and culture in a defining decade.
| ISBN: | 9781041183624 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2025 |
| Author: | Lucie Cesálková, Johannes PraetoriusRhein, Perrine Val, Paolo Villa |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 518 pages |
| Series: | Film Culture in Transition |
| Genres: |
Media studies History and Archaeology |
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, show the kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Europe. How did these cinematic images contribute to shaping the new societies emerging from the ashes of war, both in the Western and in the Eastern bloc? Why were they so crucial in framing and regulating new places and practices, political systems, economic dynamics, educational frameworks, and memory communities? This edited volume explores the multiple ways nonfiction cinema reconfigured public spaces, collective participation, democratisation, and governmentality between 1944 and 1956. Looking back at it through a transnational perspective and the critical category of spatiality, nonfiction cinema appears in a new light: simultaneously as a specifically situated and as a highly mobile medium, it was a fundamental agent in reshaping Europe's shared identity and culture in a defining decade.
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe features in the following genres: Media studies, History and Archaeology
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe is available in Paperback, Hardback
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe was written by Lucie Cesálková, Johannes PraetoriusRhein, Perrine Val, Paolo Villa and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe has 518 pages
Yes it is part of Film Culture in Transition series
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