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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lukas Brasiskis , Masha ShpolbergPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781805391050ISBN 10: 1805391054 Pages: 318 Publication Date: 13 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 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 Arlauskaite 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 Jose 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, Citroen Cars, and Roma Refugees in Boris Mitic's Pretty Dyana (2003) Alice Bardan Chapter 15. From Water to Wind: Elemental Critique in Recent Eastern European Video Art Lukas BrasiskisReviewsAuthor InformationLukas Brasiskis is an adjunct professor at New York University and CUNY/Brooklyn College, as well as Associate Curator of Film and Video for e-flux. His texts were previously published in journals, such as Found Footage Magazine, The Cine-Files, Screening the Past, and Senses of Cinema. He is a co-editor of Jonas Mekas: The Camera was Always Running (Yale University Press, 2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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