 | Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture: Moving Images of Postcommunism Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; Cultural Studies; Media & Film Studies; European Politics; Film Studies; Russian & Soviet Politics; A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally in the production of post-communist film. It argues post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level, unlimited by national state borders, and examines post-communist cross culturalism and global totalitarianism within film. The book examines 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 as within the postcommunist condition. It considers the postcommunist film in terms of transnational and World cinema. It covers a wide range of films from small and independent filmmaking to mainstream, popular cinema, and explains post-communist signifiers as manifested in visual culture both inside and outside former, and current, communist countries. Lars Kristensen is a Research Assistant at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire, UK. |
