1st Edition

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

Edited By Lars Kristensen Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally in the production of post-communist film. It argues post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level, unlimited by national state borders, and examines post-communist cross culturalism and global totalitarianism... Read more

Illustrations  Preface - Dina Iordanova  Acknowledgements  About the Authors  Introduction - Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen  Part I: Cultural Strategies, Industry and Reception  1. The Russian Postcommunist Blockbuster: Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 9th Company - Jasmijn Van Gorp  2. Baltic Cinema; Between National and Transnational Strategies - Zoe Aiano  3. Cultural Aspirations and the Voluntary Americanisation of Serbian Cinema - Vlastimir Sudar  4. ‘Haven’t you heard of Internationalism?’ Communist Cinema in Mozambique - Rosalind Gray  5. The Remains of Socialist Realism: Cyclo and Beijing Bicycle - Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen  6. Spotting the Eagle on Anglophone Turf: Postcommunist Reception and Albanian Cinema - Bruce Williams   Part II: People, Place and Nation  7. Demolish or Love: Representations of Socialist Leftover in Postcommunist Polish Cinema - Ewa Mazierska  8. Treading New Paths: Czech and German Postcommunist Road Movies - Sune Bechmann Pedersen  9. The Crime that Changed Serbia: The Belgrade Ghetto Film - Nevena Dakovic  10. Projected Nation and Projected Self: Atom Egoyan’s Calendar - Yun-Hua Chen  11. Truancy, or Thought from the Provinces: On Jia Zhangke's Platform - Yün Peng  12. Representations of Former USSR Identities in Turkish Cinema - Serazer Pekerman

Biography

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