Contested interpretations of the past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film : screen as battlefield / / 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 ‘Emp...

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Superior document:Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume 60
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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.
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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.