| Series |
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; volume 60
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 60. ^A794067
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| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| General note | "This volume consists of contributions written by the participants of the conference Suffering, Agency, and Memory in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Films, held at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on 22-23 March 2012."--Page vii. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015958271 |
| ISBN | 9789004311725 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9004311726 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
