Urban Space on Screen Cinematographies of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine

List of Figures ix
List of Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
KONSTANTY KUZMA AND MORITZ PFEIFER
PART I
Redefining the Identity of the City 11
1 A Hollowed City: Łódź in Cinema 13
EWA MAZIERSKA
2 Cinema and Urban Culture in 1930s Lviv: The Circle of the Awangarda Magazine 34
MAŁGORZATA RADKIEWICZ
3 Flooded Streets and Hollow Monuments: Aesthetics of Political Legitimacy in Revolutionary Cinemas 52
KONSTANTY KUZMA
4 Beneath the Surface of Minsk: Struggle Over Identity in Contemporary Belarusian Cinema 74
ANTONIS LAGARIAS

PART II
The Legacy of War 93
5 Cinema Palaces and Military Barracks: Assimilating the Post-German Space—Cinema in Divided Towns on the
Polish–German Border after 1945 95
MAGDALENA ABRAHAM-DIEFENBACH
6 Wrocław as the Protagonist of See You on Sunday (1959) 117
ANDRZEJ DĘBSKI
7 The Donbas as a Metaphor: The Representation of Post-Industrial and Wartime Landscapes after 2014 133
KATERYNA IAKOVLENKO
PART III
Utopian Spaces 153
8 Between the Town and the Countryside: Utopian Images and Expanses within Soviet Belarusian Films 155
OLGA ROMANOVA
9 The Grain, the Tractor, and the City: VUFKU and the Urban–Rural Conflict (1928–1931) 178
MORITZ PFEIFER
10 Filming Utopia: Atomic Towns in Soviet Ukrainian Documentaries before Chornobyl 206
STANISLAV MENZELEVSKYI
Index 236

Biography

Konstanty Kuzma is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied Philosophy in Berlin, Berkeley, and Munich. He completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and is a research fellow (“wiss. Mitarbeiter”) at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Stuttgart.

Moritz Pfeifer is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied Philosophy, Sociology and Economics in Berlin and Paris. He holds a PhD from the University of Nanterre in Paris and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Economic Policy of the University of Leipzig.