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

"This incredibly wide-ranging collection is distinguished by the unusual topics chosen by its nine contributors. Such a broad scope all too often leads to a diffuseness of focus that makes acquiring the volumes a difficult decision. Here, however, the contributions break new and important ground and warrant the most serious consideration by students of film." --S. Liebman, CUNY Graduate CenterSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty - CHOICE'... the volume is an eclectic compilation of hitherto unaddressed aspects of Eastern European Communist cinematography... these works do contribute to the reconceptualization and, ultimately, expansion of our understanding of the multifaceted nature of the cinema of the region.'V. Ceban, Slavonic and East European Review

• 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