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A Companion to Eastern European Cinemasshowcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.

• Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film cultures
• Features consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as Albanian and Baltic cinemas, popular genre films, cross-national distribution and aesthetics, animation and documentary
• Places the cinemas of the region in a European and global context
• Resists the Cold War classification of Eastern European cinemas as other art cinemas by reconnecting them with the main circulation of film studies
• Includes discussion of such films asTaxidermia,El Perro Negro,12:08 East of Bucharest Big Tll, andBreakfast on the Grassand explores the work of directors including Tams Almsi, Walerian Borowczyk, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej uawski, and Karel Vachek amongst many others