To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge – 288 pages
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
This book presents a re-examination of the cinemas of a range of countries in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in communist times. It argues that, since the end of communism in these countries, scholars of film are able to view the cinemas of those countries in communist times in a different way, no longer bound by a Cold War outlook, an outlook which tended to view such cinemas only in Cold War terms. At the same time, with the opening of archives in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, much more is known about the state and society in those countries in communist times. This re-examination of cinema presents a rich, varied tapestry, relating specific film to specific national circumstances, and viewing these cinemas more as part of the diverse "world cinema" than as a single, monolithic "Cold War Communist" cinema.
Introduction Sanja Bahun and John Haynes Part 1: Frames and Frameworks 1. Thinking Again About Cold War Cinema Lilya Kaganovsky 2. Back to the Archives: The Testimonial Power of Soviet Silent Footage of the Holocaust Jeremy Hicks 3. The Incommensurable Distance: Georgian Cinema as a World Cinema Dušan Radunović Part 2: Cinematic Experiences 4. The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Moments of Hungarian History Catherine Portuges 5. Stalinist Cinema and the Search for Audiences: Liubov΄ Orlova and the Case for Star Studies John Haynes 6. Popular Cinema in Late-1960s Romania Monica Filimon 7. Mirrors of Death: Myth and Marginality in the Bulgarian Cinema, 1960-1989 Evgenija Garbolevsky Part 3: Animating Concepts 8. The Touch of History: Haptic-phenomenology and Czech Cinema in the 1960s David Sorfa 9. Squeezing Space, Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema Ewa Hanna Mazierska 10. The Human and the Possible: Animation in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, 1960-1980 Sanja Bahun
Sanja Bahun is a Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of Essex
John Haynes is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Essex
Name: Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989: Re-Visions (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Sanja Bahun, John Haynes. This book presents a re-examination of the cinemas of a range of countries in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in communist times. It argues that, since the end of communism in these countries, scholars of film are able to view the cinemas of those...
Categories: Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Film Studies, European Cinema
