Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989: Re-Visions

ISBN-13: 9780415813235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str.

Sanja Bahun; John Haynes

Opis

This book presents a comprehensive re-examination of the cinemas of the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the communist era. It argues that, since the end of communism in these countries, film scholars are able to view these cinemas in a different way, no longer bound by an outlook relying on binary Cold War terms. With the opening of archives in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, much more is known about these states and societies; at the same time, the field has been reinvigorated by its opening up to more contemporary concepts, themes and approaches in film studies and adjacent disciplines. Taking stock of these developments, this book presents a rich, varied tapestry, relating specific films to specific national and transnational circumstances, rather than viewing them as a single, monolithic Cold War Communist cinema.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: On Spaces and Nations  1. Squeezing Space, Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema  2. Thinking again about Cold War Cinema  3. Incommensurable Distance: Versions of National Identity in Georgian Soviet Cinema  Part 2: Ideologies of Representation  4. Mirrors of Death: Subversive Subtexts in Bulgarian Cinema, 1964 –1979  5. Popular Cinema in Late 1960s Romania  6. Stalinist Cinema and the Search for Audiences: Liubov¢ Orlova and the Case for Star Studies  Part 3: (Re)recordings, (Re)focusings, (Re)discoveries  7. The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Moments of Hungarian History  8. Back to the Archives: The Testimonial Power of Soviet Silent Footage of the Holocaust  9. The Human and the Possible: Animation in Central and Eastern Europe

O autorze

Sanja Bahun is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of Essex, UK

John Haynes is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Essex, UK