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Twenty-five years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in Eastern Europe, and ten years have passed since the first formerly communist states entered the EU. An entire post-Wall generation has now entered adulthood, yet scholarship on European cinema still tends to divide the continent along the old Cold War lines.
In East, West and Centre the world's leading scholars in the field assemble to consider the ways in which notions such as East and West, national and transnational, central and marginal are being rethought and reframed in contemporary...

Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. During the 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time. German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather than follow the established...

New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background.

What is Germany, the powerful new center of a newly reorganized Europe? Or rather, can there be a 'new Germany'? And if so, what would it be?
After the crimes of the Nazis, the Cold War and the subsequent division of Germany, the unification of Germany and of Europe, these questions are difficult, and vital. This volume of new work is not a collection by like-minded 'usual suspects'. Instead, the editors have brought together radically different viewpoints and concerns. Richard van Weizsä cker, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, reflects on Goethe's legacy and the...