Eastern European Screen Cultures
About the Book Series
The series Eastern European Screen Cultures publishes critical studies on the screen cultures that have marked the socialist and post-socialist spaces in Europe. It aims to unveil current phenomena and untold histories from this region to account for their specificity and integrate them into a wider conception of European and world cinema.
The series aspires to fill gaps in research, particularly by approaching Eastern European screen cultures in a transnational and comparative framework and exploring previously underrepresented theoretical issues. It considers moving images in all stages and aspects: production, text, exhibition, reception, and education.
Eastern European Screen Cultures will also publish translations of important texts that have not been able to travel outside of national and/or regional borders.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) to submit a proposal or to find out more about the series.
Urban Space on Screen: Cinematographies of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Konstanty Kuzma, Moritz Pfeifer
June 29, 2026
The birth of cinema parallels industrial urbanization. This edited collection examines how the film cultures of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine have engaged with the built environment. Across political upheavals and shifting borders, filmmakers have documented, interpreted, and imagined the evolution ...
The Archaic in the Yugoslav Cinema of the 1960s: Modernity’s Discontents in a Post-Revolutionary Film Industry
1st Edition
By Adrian Pelc
June 22, 2026
This book investigates the “Golden Age” of Yugoslav cinema and sheds light on it from a fresh perspective. By examining various tropes and discourses of the “archaic” that shaped not only the flourishing Yugoslav cinematic modernism of the 1960s but also a broader Yugoslav cultural politics, the ...
Albanian Cinema through the Fall of Communism: Silver Screens and Red Flags
1st Edition
By Bruce Williams
December 01, 2025
Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world. Decidedly Europe’s most isolated country during the Cold War era, communist Albania had already been cut off from the West for centuries as a one of the western-most outposts of the Ottoman empire. Nonetheless, and unknown to...
Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema
1st Edition
By Henri de Corinth
December 01, 2025
Andrzej Zulawski (1940–2016) was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the director’s oeuvre through the methodological lens of Julia Kristeva’s notions of the abject and the ...
Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans
1st Edition
By Ana Grgic
December 01, 2025
Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural perspective. It investigates how the unique geopolitical positioning of the Balkan space and its ...
Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ksenya Gurshtein, Sonja Simonyi
December 01, 2025
Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist Eastern Europe? Who conducted them, where, how, and why? These are the questions answered in this volume, the first of its kind in any language. Bringing together scholars from ...
Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema
1st Edition
By Gábor Gergely
December 01, 2025
What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the period also saw the rise of cinema, audiences, filmmakers, critics, and officials often looked at ...
The Barrandov Studios: A Central European Hollywood
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernd Herzogenrath
December 01, 2025
The Barrandov Studios are one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. For more than 80 years so far, the studios have been the location of choice for over 2,500 Czech and International films. Barrandov's founding fathers, the Havel brothers Vàclav and Milo (the grandfather and uncle of ...
Yugoslav Black Wave: Polemical Cinema from 1963–72 in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1st Edition
By Greg de Cuir
April 28, 2025
Yugoslav Black Wave was originally published in 2011 by Film Center Serbia. At that time it was the first comprehensive study of the Black Wave to appear in English and is still one of the rare monographs anywhere dedicated to the subject. The Yugoslav Black Wave represented a new generation in ...
Jolted Images: Unbound Analytic
1st Edition
By Pavle Levi
October 02, 2017
Jolted Images brings together a large cast of mainstream and avant-garde cineastes, artists, photographers, comics creators, poets, and more, to reflect on a wide range of phenomena from the realms of cinema and visual culture in the Yugoslav region, broader Europe, and North America. Far from a ...