Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989

Sanja Bahun is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of Essex, UKJohn Haynes is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Essex, UK

• IntroductionPart 1: On Spaces and Nations1. Squeezing Space, Releasing Space: Spatial Research in the Study of Eastern European Cinema2. Thinking again about Cold War Cinema 3. Incommensurable Distance: Versions of National Identity in Georgian Soviet Cinema Part 2: Ideologies of Representation 4. Mirrors of Death: Subversive Subtexts in Bulgarian Cinema, 1964 –1979 5. Popular Cinema in Late 1960s Romania6. Stalinist Cinema and the Search for Audiences: Liubov¢ Orlova and the Case for Star StudiesPart 3: (Re)recordings, (Re)focusings, (Re)discoveries 7. The Political Camera: Comparing 1956 in Three Moments of Hungarian History8. Back to the Archives: The Testimonial Power of Soviet Silent Footage of the Holocaust9. The Human and the Possible: Animation in Central and Eastern Europe

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