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Post-Communist Malaise

Cinematic Responses to European Integration

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democracy achieving decisive victories. Europe would now integrate and reconcile with its past. However, the aftershocks of the financial crisis of 2008—the rise in right-wing populism, austerity politics, and mass migration—have shown that the ideological divisions which haunted Europe in the twentieth century still remain. It is within this context that Post-Communist Malaise revives discourses of political modernism and revisits debates from Marxism and seventies film theory. Analyzing work of Theo Angelopoulos, Věra Chytilová, Srdjan Dragojević, Jean-Luc Godard, Miklós Jancsó, Emir Kusturica, Dušan Makavejev, Cristi Puiu, Jan Švankmajer, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Béla Tarr, the book focuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the regions, Post-Communist Malaise asks fundamental questions about film, aesthetics, and ideology. It argues for the utopian potential of the materiality of cinematic time to imagine a new political and cultural organization for Europe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt3 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedia Matters
Antal sidor220
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813587141

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Marxism och kommunism inom Samhälle och politik
Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

ContentsIntroduction 1 Eastern European New Waves and Political Modernism 2 What Happens After the End of History?Part I From Communism to CapitalismPart II From Capitalism to Nationalism3 Slow Cinema and The Escape From Capitalist RealismPart I The Materiality of Cinematic Time from Andrei Tarkovsky to Béla TarrPart II Cristi Puiu Between Slow Cinema and Transcendental Style4 Theo Angelopoulos, Greece, and The Ends of EuropePart I A New Collective DreamPart II Cinema As Past and FutureConclusion AcknowledgementsIndex

"Forging upstream against critical currents, Samardzija's book stubbornly holds out for the principle of aesthetic hope, extracted from the carapace of political modernism with a set of sharp theoretical tools. Within the unique neither-quite-West-nor-anymore-East terrain of Europe's post-communist countries, he finds a set of films capable of giving shape to the 'post-communist malaise' by capturing and making visible the gap between the expired promises of universal utopia and the disenchantments and exclusions of neoliberal Euro markets. His ingenious close readings bring the revisionist contours of such latent hope to light."— Nataša Durovicová, co-editor of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives