Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture: Moving Images of Postcommunism

ISBN-13: 9780415671644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Lars Kristensen

Opis

A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire, and this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally on the production of post-communist film. Seeking to describe how post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level and not limited by the borders of national states, it examines post-communist cross culturalism and global totalitarianism within film. Chapters focus on a wide range of films in relation to the post-communist era, from small and independent filmmaking to mainstream, popular cinema, and explains post-communist signifiers as manifested in visual culture both inside and outside former, and current, communist countries.

Spis treści

Part I: Cultural Strategies, Industry and Reception  1. The Russian Postcommunist Blockbuster: Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 9th Company 2. Baltic Cinema; Between National and Transnational Strategies 3. Cultural Aspirations and the Voluntary Americanisation of Serbian Cinema 4. ‘Haven’t you heard of Internationalism?’ Communist Cinema in Mozambique 5. The Remains of Socialist Realism: Cyclo and Beijing Bicycle 6. Spotting the Eagle on Anglophone Turf: Postcommunist Reception and Albanian Cinema Part II: People, Place and Nation  7. Demolish or Love: Representations of Socialist Leftover in Postcommunist Polish Cinema 8. Treading New Paths: Czech and German Postcommunist Road Movies 9. The Crime that Changed Serbia: The Belgrade Ghetto Film 10. Projected Nation and Projected Self: Atom Egoyan’s Calendar 11. Truancy, or Thought from the Provinces: On Jia Zhangke's Platform 12. Representations of Former USSR Identities in Turkish Cinema

O autorze

Lars Kristensen is a Research Assistant at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire, UK.