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Title Contested interpretations of the past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian film : screen as battlefield / edited by, Sander Brouwer
Published Leiden, The Netherlands : Rodopi, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages .)
Series Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; volume 60
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 60
Contents Contested Interpretations of the Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film: Screen as Battlefield; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration; 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
Summary "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."--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Historical films -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
Historical films -- Russia (Federation) -- History and criticism
Historical films -- Political aspects -- Ukraine
Historical films -- Ukraine -- History and criticism
Historical films -- Political aspects -- Poland
Historical films -- Poland -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
Historical films
Poland
Russia (Federation)
Ukraine
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Brouwer, Sander, editor
LC no. 2015958271
ISBN 9789004311749
9004311742