First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Aniko Imre is research associate at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis.

Acknowledgements Introduction: East European Cinemas in New Perspectives "Aniko Imre" Part 1: Gender Identity and Representation 1. Second Worldness and Transnational Feminist Practices: Agnieszke Holland's "A Woman Alone Katarzyna Marchiniak" 2. What's in Your Head: History and Nation in Ibolya Fekete's "Bolse vita "and Ghetto Art's "Making the Walls come Down Marguerite Waller "3. Playing the Western Eye: Balkan Masculinity and Post-Yugoslav-War Cinema "Tomislav Z. Longinovic" 4. The Politics of Representing Gender in Post-World War II Polish Cinema and Visual Art" Elzbieta H. Olesky "5. Voices from Another World: Feminine Space and Masculine Intrusion in "Sedmikrasky "and "VraA da ing. Certa" "Petra Hanakova " Part 2: (Post)Modernist Continutities 6. Somewhere in Europe: Exile and Orphanage in Post-World War II Hungarian Cinema "Melinda Szaloky" 7. Global Aesthetics and the Serbian Cinema of the 1990s "Dusan Bjelic" 8. Traumatic Memory, Jewish Identity: Remapping the Past in Hungarian Cinema "Catherine Portuges" 9. The Ironies of History: The Czech Experience" Peter Hames" 10. Gabor Body: Precursor of the Digital Age "Andras Balint Kovacs "11. Chaos, Intermediality, Allegory: The Cinema of Mircea Daneliuc" gnes Petho "Part 3: Regional Visions 12. Reframing Europe's Double Border "Kriss Raveto-Biaglioli" 13. Reliving the Past in Recent European Cinemas "Roumiana Deltcheva" 14. Fragmented Discourses: Young Cinema from Central and Eastern Europe" Christina Stojanova" 15. The Cinema of Eastern Europe: Strained Loyalties, Elusive Clusters" Dina Iordnova "Index Contributors