[ecrea] New Book: Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture: Moving Images of Postcommunism

I recently edited a collection on cinema and postcommunism, which is out 
now with Routledge. The book has contributions from many esteemed 
colleagues and on many disparate modes of filmmaking. It springs from 
two academic events organised in 2009; an AHRC sponsored conference at 
the University of St Andrews and a workshop series at Tirana 
International Film Festival in Albania.

For more information, please see the abstract and table of contents 
below. For online ordering, visit www.routledge.com/9780415671644/ 
<http://www.routledge.com/9780415671644/> and enter discount code MRJ62 
at the checkout to claim your discount.

Kind regards,

Lars Kristensen
Post-Doc Research Assistant
School of Journalism, Media and Communication
University of Central Lancashire
PR1 2HE, UK
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/journalism_media_communication/larskristensen.php

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Title: Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture: 
Moving Images of Postcommunism

Abstract
A postcommunist condition was created through the fall of the Berlin 
Wall and later the Soviet Empire, and this book looks at how this 
condition has manifested itself globally in the production of 
postcommunist film. It deals with different national cinemas and 
dissimilar cinematic modes, from Russian blockbuster cinema to Chinese 
independent cinema, from Serbian city films to revolutionary films of 
Mozambique, all formulated within the postcommunist condition. 
Attempting to illustrate history’s role in the formation of the 
postcommunist film, the book aims at moving the notion of postcommunist 
film away from an exclusively geographical foundation and into the realm 
of transnational cinema and World cinema. Seeking to describe how 
postcommunism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level and not 
limited by the borders of national states, it examines postcommunist 
cross-culturalism and the rise of a global totalitarianism within film. 
The chapters explore a wide range of films in relation to the 
postcommunist era, from small and low-budget filmmaking to mainstream, 
popular cinema, and explain postcommunist signifiers as manifested in 
visual culture both inside and outside former, and current, communist 
countries. The contributors consist of young emerging scholars; 
predominantly from film and media studies, as well as more well-known 
names within the field of Eastern European cinema.

Table of Contents
Illustrations Preface - Dina Iordanova Acknowledgements About the 
Authors Introduction - Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen Part I: Cultural 
Strategies, Industry and Reception 1. The Russian Postcommunist 
Blockbuster: Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 9th Company - Jasmijn Van Gorp 2. 
Baltic Cinema; Between National and Transnational Strategies - Zoe Aiano 
3. Cultural Aspirations and the Voluntary Americanisation of Serbian 
Cinema - Vlastimir Sudar 4. ‘Haven’t you heard of Internationalism?’ 
Communist Cinema in Mozambique - Rosalind Gray 5. The Remains of 
Socialist Realism: Cyclo and Beijing Bicycle - Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord 
Kristensen 6. Spotting the Eagle on Anglophone Turf: Postcommunist 
Reception and Albanian Cinema - Bruce Williams Part II: People, Place 
and Nation 7. Demolish or Love: Representations of Socialist Leftover in 
Postcommunist Polish Cinema - Ewa Mazierska 8. Treading New Paths: Czech 
and German Postcommunist Road Movies - Sune Bechmann Pedersen 9. The 
Crime that Changed Serbia: The Belgrade Ghetto Film - Nevena Dakovic 10. 
Projected Nation and Projected Self: Atom Egoyan’s Calendar - Yun-Hua 
Chen 11. Truancy, or Thought from the Provinces: On Jia Zhangke's 
Platform - Yün Peng 12. Representations of Former USSR Identities in 
Turkish Cinema - Serazer Pekerman

Author Biography
Lars Kristensen is a Research Assistant at the School of Journalism, 
Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire, UK.


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