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Title Cinema, state socialism and society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 : re-visions / edited by Sanja Bahun and John Haynes
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 215 pages)
Series BASEES/Routledge series on Russia and East European studies
BASEES/Routledge series on Russia and East European Studies
Contents Introduction -- On Spaces and Nations. Ewa Mazierska: Squeezing Space, Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema -- Lilya Kaganovsky: Thinking again about Cold War Cinema -- Duan Radunovic: Incommensurable Distance: Versions of National Identity in Georgian Soviet Cinema -- Ideologies of Representation. Evgenija Garbolevsky: Mirrors of Death: Subversive Subtexts in Bulgarian Cinema, 1964-1979 -- Monica Filimon: Popular Cinema in Late 1960s Romania -- John Haynes: Stalinist Cinema and the Search for Audiences: Liubov Orlova and the Case for Star Studies -- (Re)recordings, (Re)focusings, (Re)discoveries. Catherine Portuges: The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Moments of Hungarian History -- Jeremy Hicks: Back to the Archives: The Testimonial Power of Soviet Silent Footage of the Holocaust -- Sanja Bahun: The Human and the Possible
Summary 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 stud
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Socialism and motion pictures -- Soviet Union
Socialism and motion pictures -- Europe, Eastern -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects
Motion pictures -- Social aspects
Socialism and motion pictures
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bahun, Sanja, editor
Haynes, John, 1971- editor.
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