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In this innovative study; German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of "interzones"--geographical and ideational spaces of transit; interaction; transformation; and contested diversity--as a mechanism for analyzing European cinema. He focuses especially on films about borders; borderlands; and cultural zones as he traces the development of interzones from the inception of central European cinema to the avant-garde films of today. Throughout; he shows how cinema both reflects and engenders interzones that explore the important questions of Europes social order: imperialism and nation-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; "first contact" between former adversaries (such as East and West Germany) following World War II and the Cold War; and migration; neo-colonialism; and cultural imperialism in the twenty-first century. Ultimately; Halle argues that todays cinema both produces and reflects imaginative communities. He demonstrates how; rather than simply erasing boundaries; the European Union instead fosters a network of cultural interzones that encourage cinematic exploration of the new Europes processes and limits of connectivity; tolerance; and cooperation.