East, West and Centre

Advanced students and scholars in European Film Studies

East West and Centre: Re-framing Post-1989 European Cinema cannot be missed by anybody who searches for thought-provoking films and new ways to tackle them. Its authors engage with the legacies of various types of colonialism in Europe and imbalance in European cinema, and attempt to counteract these phenomena by offering close analyses of the most fascinating films made since the fall of state socialism, utilising concepts such as feminism, magic realism, hapticity and road cinema.

A valuable collection of essays exploring the East-West European cinematic relationship. Each essay stands on its own, some engaging in analysis of specific films, others offering an overview of a “minor” national cinema...[the volume] will be of interest to anyone researching contemporary European cinema and particularly those interested in the relationship between eastern and western Europe.

Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and French-language culture and cinema. He is the author of French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas and ‘New Europe’ (EUP, 2016) and co-edited Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (EUP, 2018), Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) and East, West and Centre: Reframing European Cinema Since 1989 (EUP, 2014). Todd Herzog is an Associate Professor and Chair of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is co-editor of the Journal of Austrian Studies. His books include Crime Stories (Berghahn, 2009), Rebirth of a Culture (Berghahn, 2008, with Hillary Hope Herzog and Benjamin Lapp) and A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001, with Sander Gilman).