Main entry:

Česálková, Lucie, 1983-

Title & Author:

Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe : Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
©2024.

Description:

1 online resource (520 pages).

Series:

Film Culture in Transition Series

Notes:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: (Re)building Europe through Cinema (Studies) -- Frames of Reconstruction: An Introduction -- Section 1 Locating Non-fiction Film -- Introduction -- 1. Itinerari Italiani: A Visual Information Campaign to Reclaim Italian Regionalisms and Remap US-Italian Economic Interdependence under the Marshall Plan -- 2. Documentary Filmmaking in Postwar Germany, 1945-55 An Essay on the History of Production, Distribution, and Technology -- 3. Finding the Best Time for Shorts: Non-fiction Film, Non-stop Cinemas, and the Temporalities of Everyday Life of Post-WWII Audiences -- 4. Coproducing Postwar Socialist (Re)construction: Transnational Documentaries in Eastern Europe -- 5. From Enemy Images to Friend Images after WWII , or How France Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Germany -- Section 2 Reconstructing Realities -- Introduction -- 6. "Room to Move and Space to Play"1 Architecture and the Marshall Plan's Cinematic Reconfiguration of Space -- 7. Screening Dortmund in Ruins: The Role of Elisabeth Wilms's Postwar Film Footage in City Politics and Local Remembrance Culture -- 8. From Rubble to Ruins: War Destruction, Postwar Reconstruction, and Tamed Modernization -- 9. Screening (at) the Workplace: Postwar Non-fiction Cinema and the Gendered and Political Spaces of Labor -- 10. Choreographies of Public Space: Non-fiction Film and Performances of Citizenship in Postwar Europe -- Section 3 Spaces of Cultural Trauma -- Introduction -- 11. Ruins, Iconic Sites, and Cultural Heritage in Italy and Poland in the Aftermath of World War II -- 12. Moving Accountability: Trials, Transitional Justice, and Documentary Cinema1 -- 13. (De)constructing the Architect: Modern Architecture between Praise and Criticism in Postwar Non-fiction Cinema -- 14. Restructuring (Post)colonial Relationships: European Empires between Decolonization, Trusteeships, and a New Projection in Africa -- Section 4 Creating New Paths -- Introduction -- 15. Virtual Topographies of Memory: Liberation Films as Mobile Models of Atrocity Sites -- 16. Curating Reconstruction in the Digital Realm: The Online Exhibition Frames of Reconstruction -- 17. Teaching (with) Postwar Cinema: Fostering Media Education and Transnational Historical Thinking through Non-fiction Film Heritage -- List of Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

9048556627
9789048556625

Subject:

Motion pictures Europe History.
Nonfiction films Europe History.
AUP Wetenschappelijk.
Amsterdam University Press.
Film Studies.
Film, Media, and Communication.
Media Studies.
Films autres que de fiction Europe Histoire.
Films, cinema.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
HISTORY / Europe / Western.
Film criticism
Historiography
Sociology
Film history, theory or criticism.
European history.
Social and cultural history.
South
Non-fiction cinema
reconstruction
post-war Europe
public space
transnational cinema

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections

Added entries:

Praetorius-Rhein, Johannes.
Val, Perrine.
Villa, Paolo.
Film culture in transition.