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  • Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe

    Edited by Ksenya Gurshtein, Sonja Simonyi ...
    Series series Eastern European Screen Cultures
    Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist Eastern Europe? Who conducted them, where, how, and why? These are the questions answered in this volume, the first of its kind in any language. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, the book offers case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, former East Germany, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Remapping Cold War Media

    Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations

    by Katie Trumpener, Rosamund Johnston, Anu Koivunen, Masha Salazkina, Sonja Simonyi, Jaroslav Švelch, Marie Cronqvist, Elena Razlogova, Brangwen Stone, Marla Zubel, Laura Saarenmaa, Petr Szczepanik, Stefano Pisu, Christine Evans, Lars Lundgren, Anikó Imre ...
    Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Visions of Avant-Garde Film

    Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism

    by Kamila Kuc ...
    Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Drawing the Iron Curtain

    Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation

    by Maya Balakirsky Katz ...
    In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive.Art ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas

    Edited by Anikó Imre ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film culturesFeatures consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era

    by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova ...
    Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts celebrated ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Museums of Communism

    New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Stephen M. Norris ...
    How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Army Film and the Avant Garde

    Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military

    by Alice Lovejoy ...
    A history of the Czechoslovakian military's connection to some of the nation's most innovative and subversive cinema.During the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some of the most politically subversive and aesthetically innovative films of the period. Although the studio is remembered primarily as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia's New Fin de Siècle

    Contemporary Culture between Past and Present

    Edited by Birgit Beumers ...
    Russia's New Fin de Siècle brings together a range of texts on contemporary Russian culture – literary, cinematic and popular – as artists and writers try to situate themselves within the traditional frameworks of past and present, East and West, but also challenge established markers of identity. Investigating Russian culture at the turn of the 21st century, scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Lilya Kaganovsky, Masha Salazkina ...
    This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from film studies, musicology, music theory, history, and cultural studies examine the importance of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Russian Cinema

    Edited by Birgit Beumers ...
    Series Book 6 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies.The most up-to-date and thorough coverage of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, which also effectively fills gaps in the ... Read more

    $181.00 USD

  • The Conscience of Cinema

    The works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989

    by Thomas Waugh ...
    Series series Framing Film
    This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentary and its form, culture, and place within twentieth-century world cinema. Ivens ... Read more

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