ABSTRACT
To conclude the book, we revise the methodological tools that we have applied for the historical reconstruction of health films as a possible answer to the grip of the binary opposition historians face, between the global and the national. We discuss the options for the epistemic improvement of historical narratives regarding interwar Eastern Europe as moving away from presenting the interwar period as a historical bridge between exposing the oppression of the imperial period and the authoritative regimes experienced after 1918. The options and limits of such historicizing as replacing nationalism and global capitalism by national indifference and deglobalization, or better understanding of the echo of the Great War in interwar policies, are examined through the lens of films as events and fantasies as the main components of nonlinear historicization.
