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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Sander Brouwer -- Introduction / Sander Brouwer -- Between the Poetic and the Documentary: Ukrainian Cinema’s Responses to World War II / Vitaly Chernetsky -- “Wanna Be in the New York Times?”: Epic History and War City as Global Cinema / Lars Kristensen -- At War: Polish-Russian Relations in Recent Polish Films / Ewa Hanna Mazierska -- Displacement, Suffering and Mourning: Post-war Landscapes in Contemporary Polish Cinema / Matilda Mroz -- “I Am Afraid of this Land”: The Representation of Russia in Polish Documentaries about the Smolensk Plane Crash / Mirosław Przylipiak -- “Nuclear Belonging”: “Chernobyl” in Belarusian, Ukrainian (and Russian) films / Olga Briukhovetska -- From Empire to Smuta and back. The Mythopoetics of Cyclical History in Russian Film and TV-Documentaries / Sander Brouwer -- Tsar Peter, Mazepa and Ukraine: A Love Triangle. Iurii Illienko’s A Prayer for hetman Mazepa / Sander Brouwer -- Encircling an Unrepresentable Past: The Aesthetic of Trauma in Karen Shakhnazarov‘s Dreams (1993) / Mariëlle W. Wijermars -- Index / Sander Brouwer.