Chapter title | Eastern Europe as Site of Monstrosity in Import-Export and La Vie Nouvelle |
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Authors | Goddard, M. |
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Editors | Horeck, T. and Kendall, T. |
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Abstract | This chapter explores the presentation of Eastern Europe as a site of monstrosity in two recent films, Phillipe Grandrieux's La Vie Nouvelle and Ulrich Seidl's Import-Export. It argues that despite superficial resemblances to cliché presentations of eastern europe as primitive other to the civilised West, both films use Eastern Europe as a site of monstrosity in order to pose ethical and aesthetic problematics that destabilise the hegemony of the West. |
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Keywords | Easter Europe, Monstrosity, Post-Communism, aesthetics, geopolitics |
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Book title | The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe |
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Page range | 82-92 |
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Year | 2011 |
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Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
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Publication dates |
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Published | Jul 2011 |
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Place of publication | Edinburgh |
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ISBN | 9780748641604 |
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