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Forging upstream against critical currents, Samardzija's book stubbornly holds out for the principle of aesthetic hope, extracted from the carapace of political modernism with a set of sharp theoretical tools. Within the unique neither-quite-West-nor-anymore-East terrain of Europe's post-communist countries, he finds a set of films capable of giving shape to the 'post-communist malaise' by capturing and making visible the gap between the expired promises of universal utopia and the disenchantments and exclusions of neoliberal Euro markets. His ingenious close readings bring the revisionist contours of such latent hope to light. --Natasa Durovicova co-editor of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

Forging upstream against critical currents, Samardzija's book stubbornly holds out for the principle of aesthetic hope, extracted from the carapace of political modernism with a set of sharp theoretical tools. Within the unique neither-quite-West-nor-anymore-East terrain of Europe's post-communist countries, he finds a set of films capable of giving shape to the 'post-communist malaise' by capturing and making visible the gap between the expired promises of universal utopia and the disenchantments and exclusions of neoliberal Euro markets. His ingenious close readings bring the revisionist contours of such latent hope to light.

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Zoran Samardzija is an associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of essays on David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Eastern European and Balkan cinemas.

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