ABSTRACT
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 studies and adjacent disciplines. Taking stock of these developments, this book presents a rich, varied tapestry, relating specific films to specific national and transnational circumstances, rather than viewing them as a single, monolithic "Cold War Communist" cinema.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
On spaces and nations
chapter 1|15 pages
Squeezing space, releasing space
part II|74 pages
Ideologies of representation
chapter 6|34 pages
Stalinist cinema and the search for audiences
part III|60 pages
(Re)recordings, (re)focusings, (re)discoveries