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

by Kristensen; Lars

• ISBN13: 9780415671644
• ISBN10: 0415671647
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Notes on contributors	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Cultural strategies, industry and reception	p. 11
National identity in post-9/11 transnational cinema	p. 13
Baltic cinema	p. 24
Belgrade as New York	p. 35
'Haven't you heard of internationalism?'	p. 53
The remains of socialist realism	p. 75
Spotting the eagle on Anglophone turf	p. 89
People, place and nation	p. 105
Demolish, preserve or beautify	p. 107
Treading new paths	p. 121
The crime that changed Serbia	p. 134
Projected nation and projected self	p. 143
Truancy, or thought from the provinces	p. 154
Representations of former USSR and Eastern European identity in Turkish cinema	p. 171
References	p. 183
Index	p. 194
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