The Risk Environment of Small-Nation Filmmaking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 9
4. Acknowledgments 13
5. Introduction: Towards a Politics of Scale 15
6. Industry/Funding
7. The Risk Environment of Small-Nation Filmmaking 49
8. Maltese Cinema? 65
9. Luxembourg’s Film Finance Model, Andy Bausch, and Cultural Identity 85
10. The Best of Both Worlds 101
11. History/Memory
12. Anxiety, Memory, and Place in Belgian Cinema 115
13. Varieties of Smallness 129
14. At the Crossroads of Time 141
15. The Archival Impulse and the Digitization of European Film History 151
16. Realism and its Discontents
17. Framed by Definitions 173
18. In the Country of Panpan 187
19. A Decade with the New Romanian Cinema 197
20. Genre/Adaptation
21. “A Typical Icelandic Murder?” 213
22. How Corto Maltese Died 229
23. Exposed: A Short History of Austrian Science Fiction Film 249
24. The “Quixote” Myth and the New Eastern Europe 259
25. Small Screens/Private Cinema
26. The Moral Microhistory of Post-Communism 285
27. Polish Film Culture in Transition 299
28. Desires and Memories of a Small Man 317
29. Beyond the National
30. Félix Guattari and Minor Cinema 337
31. Veit Helmer’s Tuvalu, Cinema Babel, and the (Dis-)location of Europe 351
32. At the Crossroads of Genre and Identity 367
33. National or Transnational German Cinema Post-1989? 389
34. The Cinema of the Abject and the Cinema of Capitalist Fantasy in Poland 399
35. Contributor Biographies 411