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Series:
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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.
Introduction
Sanja Bahun and John Haynes
Part 1: On Spaces and Nations
1. Squeezing Space, Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema
Ewa Mazierska
2. Thinking again about Cold War Cinema
Lilya Kaganovsky
3. Incommensurable Distance: Versions of National Identity in Georgian Soviet Cinema
Dušan Radunović
Part 2: Ideologies of Representation
4. Mirrors of Death: Subversive Subtexts in Bulgarian Cinema, 1964 –1979
Evgenija Garbolevsky
5. Popular Cinema in Late 1960s Romania Monica Filimon
6. Stalinist Cinema and the Search for Audiences: Liubov Orlova and the Case for Star Studies
John Haynes
Part 3: (Re)recordings, (Re)focusings, (Re)discoveries
7. The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Moments of Hungarian History
Catherine Portuges
8. Back to the Archives: The Testimonial Power of Soviet Silent Footage of the Holocaust
Jeremy Hicks
9. The Human and the Possible: Animation in Central and Eastern Europe
Sanja Bahun