Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture: Moving Images of Postcommunism (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

"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 within film. The book examines different national cinemas and dissimilar cinematic modes - from Russian blockbuster cinema to Chinese independent cinema; from Serbian city films to revolutionary films of Mozambique - all formulated as within the postcommunist condition. It considers the postcommunist film in terms of transnational and World cinema. It covers a wide range of films 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"--OCLC Introduction / Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen -- Cultural Strategies, Industry And Reception. The Russian Postcommunist Blockbuster: Fyodor Bondarchuk's 9th Company / Jasmijn Van Gorp -- Baltic Cinema: Between National And Transnational Strategies / Zoe Aiano -- Cultural Aspirations And The Voluntary Americanisation Of Serbian Cinema / Vlastimir Sudar -- Haven't You Heard Of Internationalism? Communist Cinema In Mozambique / Rosalind Gray -- The Remains Of Socialist Realism: Cyclo And Beijing Bicycle / Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen -- Spotting The Eagle On Anglophone Turf: Postcommunist Reception And Albanian Cinema / Bruce Williams -- People, Place And Nation. Demolish Or Love: Representations Of Socialist Leftover In Postcommunist Polish Cinema / Ewa Mazierska -- Treading New Paths: Czech And German Postcommunist Road Movies / Sune Beckman Pedersen -- The Crime That Changed Serbia: The Belgrade Ghetto Film / Nevena Dakovic -- Projected Nation And Projected Self: Atom Egoyan's Calendar / Yun-hua Chen -- Truancy, Or Thought From The Provinces: On Jia Zhangke's Platform / Yün Peng -- Representations Of Former Ussr Identities In Turkish Cinema / Serazer Pekerman. Edited By Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: Introduction / Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen -- Cultural strategies, industry and reception. The Russian postcommunist blockbuster: Fyodor Bondarchuk's 9th Company / Jasmijn Van Gorp -- Baltic cinema: between national and transnational strategies / Zoe Aiano -- Cultural aspirations and the voluntary Americanisation of Serbian cinema / Vlastimir Sudar -- "Haven't you heard of internationalism?" Communist cinema in Mozambique / Rosalind Gray -- The remains of socialist realism: Cyclo and Beijing bicycle / Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen -- Spotting the eagle on Anglophone turf: postcommunist reception and Albanian cinema / Bruce Williams -- People, place and nation. Demolish or love: representations of socialist leftover in postcommunist Polish cinema / Ewa Mazierska -- Treading new paths: Czech and German postcommunist road movies / Sune Beckman Pedersen -- The crime that changed Serbia: the Belgrade ghetto film / Nevena Dakovic -- Projected nation and projected self: Atom Egoyan's Calendar / Yun-Hua Chen -- Truancy, or thought from the provinces: on Jia Zhangke's Platform / Yün Peng -- Representations of former USSR identities in Turkish Cinema / Serazer Pekerman.