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Article: The politics of hiccups: national cinema without national language.(Critical Essay)
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- March 22, 2004
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1. The End of Eastern and Central European Historical Allegory
Films from Eastern and Central Europe (1) are rarely discussed outside the national-cinema framework. They are reputed to have a unique regional sensibility: a tragic or ironic preoccupation with national history permeates virtually every film made in the former Soviet Bloc. This preoccupation takes a variety of aesthetic forms and ideological directions, from realistic historical epics adapted from classics of national literature to "existentialist" films, in which the historical background is projected onto the moral screen of the hero-protagonist. (2) Films generally selected as representative of ...