Contested interpretations of the past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film : screen as battlefield / / edited by Sander Brouwer.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume 60
• TeilnehmendeR: Brouwer, Sander,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; Volume 60.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Between the Poetic and the Documentary: Ukrainian Cinema’s Responses to World War II /; “Wanna Be in the New York Times?”: Epic History and War City as Global Cinema /; At War: Polish-Russian Relations in Recent Polish Films /; Displacement, Suffering and Mourning: Post-war Landscapes in Contemporary Polish Cinema /; “I Am Afraid of this Land”: The Representation of Russia in Polish Documentaries about the Smolensk Plane Crash /; “Nuclear Belonging”: “Chernobyl” in Belarusian, Ukrainian (and Russian) films /; From Empire to Smuta and back. The Mythopoetics of Cyclical History in Russian Film and TV-Documentaries /; Tsar Peter, Mazepa and Ukraine: A Love Triangle. Iurii Illienko’s A Prayer for hetman Mazepa /; Encircling an Unrepresentable Past: The Aesthetic of Trauma in Karen Shakhnazarov‘s Dreams (1993) /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004311742
• ISSN: 0169-0175
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sander Brouwer.

Questions of collective identity and nationhood dominate the memory debate in both the high and popular cultures of postsocialist Russia, Poland and Ukraine. Often the ‘Soviet’ and ‘Russian’ identity are reconstructed as identical; others remember the Soviet regime as an anonymous supranational ‘Empire’, in which both Russian and non-Russian national cultures were destroyed. At the heart of this ‘empire talk’ is a series of questions pivoting on the opposition between constructed ‘ethnic’ and ‘imperial’ identities. Did ethnic Russians constitute the core group who implemented the Soviet Terror, e.g. the mass murders of the Poles in Katyn and the Ukrainians in the Holodomor? Or were Russians themselves victims of a faceless totalitarianism? The papers in this volume explore the divergent and conflicting ways in which the Soviet regime is remembered and re-imagined in contemporary Russian, Polish and Ukrainian cinema and media.