Postcommunist Film: Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture, Moving Images of Postcommunism
Postcommunist Film: Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture, Moving Images of Postcommunism by Lars Kristensen
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415671647, 0415731313 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415671647, 0415731313 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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.