Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe

From Communism to Capitalism

Masha Shpolberg, Lukas Brasiskis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

321 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-105-0 (ISBN)

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The annexation of Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere after World War II dramatically reshaped popular understandings of the natural environment. With an eco-critical approach, Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe breaks new ground in documenting how filmmakers increasingly saw cinema as a tool to critique the social and environmental damage of large-scale projects from socialist regimes and newly forming capitalist presences. New and established scholars with backgrounds across Europe, the United States, and Australia come together to reflect on how the cultural sphere has, and can still, play a role in redefining our relationship to nature.

Masha Shpolberg is Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. She is currently at work on a book entitled Labor in Late Socialism: The Cinema of Polish Workers’ Unrest. In addition to this volume, she is also co-editor, with Anastasia Kostina, of Contemporary Russian Documentary, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

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Introduction

Masha Shpolberg and Lukas Brasiskis

Part I: Industrializing the Bloc: Cinema of the Socialist Period

Chapter 1. Sad Landscapes: Panoramic Photography and Documentary Film in the Czech Lands

Katie Trumpener and Alice Lovejoy

Chapter 2. From Mastery to Indistinction: Nature in Thaw-Era Cinema

Lida Oukaderova

Chapter 3. Spectres of Ecology in Cold War Soviet Science Fiction Film

Natalija Majsova

Part II: Environmental Crisis and the Nuclear Imaginary

Chapter 4. Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes: The End of August at the Hotel Ozone and the Czechoslovak New Wave

Barbora Bartunkova

Chapter 5. Fallow Fields: Crises of Masculinity and Ecology in Piotr Andrejew’s ‘Tender Spots’

Eliza Rose

Chapter 6. Catastrophe, Obliquely: The Revival of the Essay Film Form in Soviet Documentaries About Chernobyl

Masha Shpolberg

Part III: Animals Between the Natural and the Social

Chapter 7. Animals in Modernity: Shaping the Urban Landscape in Lithuanian Documentary

Natalija Arlauskaitė

Chapter 8. Mongrelizing Interpretation: The Animal in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema

Raymond DeLuca

Part IV: From Communism to Capitalism: Privatization and the Commons

Chapter 9. Okraina and ‘Oil Ontology’ in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

José Alaniz

Chapter 10. The Commercialization and Destruction of Nature in Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema

Dina Iordanova

Part V: Towards an Eastern European Eco-cinema

Chapter 11. Coming to the Senses: Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Slovenian Cinema

Meta Mazaj

Chapter 12. Cinema of the Forest People: Environmental Consciousness, Authorship and Genre in Post-1989 Polish Film

Kris Van Heuckelom

Chapter 13. Beyond the Utopian Landscape in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

Jeremi Szaniawski and Michael Cramer

Chapter 14. Recycling, Citroën Cars, and Roma Refugees in Boris Mitić’s Pretty Dyana (2003)

Alice Bardan

Chapter 15. From Water to Wind: Elemental Critique in Recent Eastern European Video Art

Lukas Brasiskis

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-105-4 / 1805391054
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-105-0 / 9781805391050
Zustand	Neuware