The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Art, Literature, Film and Theatre in Eastern Europe and the Baltics

Author:   Anja Tippner ,  Johanna Lindbladh
Publisher:   Central European University Press
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Pages:   350
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
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The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Art, Literature, Film and Theatre in Eastern Europe and the Baltics


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Author:   Anja Tippner ,  Johanna Lindbladh
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
ISBN:  

9789633866733


ISBN 10:   9633866731
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Prologue: Witnessing in Art. Ukrainian Voices from the War Olexii Kuchanskyi Introduction: Performing the Documentary: The Uses and Abuses of Factuality and Art Johanna Lindbladh and Anja Tippner PART I. Witnessing in Art. Theoretical Perspectives A Crowd in Every Face: The Documentary Image in Concentrationary Art Libby Saxton The Methods of Second-Hand Testimonies Exemplified by Svetlana Aleksievich’s Artistic and Dialogic Practices Johanna Lindbladh Documenting as Teamwork: Problems of Collaboration in Documentary Art in Belarus and Russia Anja Tippner PART II. Documentary Art on Screen and Stage Ukrainian Documentary Theatre in the Context of War Molly Flynn/ Ielizaveta Oliinyk Reading the Soviet Time Speeches: Contemporary Russian Theatre’s Reflexion Elena Gordienko The Sociology of Contemporary Russian Documentary Film Jeremy Hicks Melodrama, Truth Telling and the Memory of War in the Soviet Cinema of the Thaw Violeta Davoliūtė The Ethnography of Damaged Life: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema between Document and Dream Olha Briukhovetska PART III. Documentary practices in literature Towards a Testimonial Mode: Documentary Literature and the Memory of WWII in Ülo Tuulik’s In the Way of the War (1974) Eneken Laanes Ludmila Ulitskaya’s ‘Novel in Documents’, Daniel Stein, Interpreter Fiona Björling Cognitive Overload and the Documentary Mode in Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory Julie Hansen Documentary Poetry and Stigmatized People in Today’s Russia and Belarus: the Birth of a New Visibility Il’ia Kukulin

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Anja Tippner is a Full Professor of Slavic Literatures at Hamburg University. She works on concepts of documentation and life-writing as well as representations of the Holocaust and extreme experiences in Russian, Polish, and Czech literature. Her current research focuses on documentary and collaborative (life-)writing. Johanna Lindbladh is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at Lund University. She studies memory processes in literature, film and theatre dealing with (traumatic) experiences during and after the Soviet era. Her current research focuses on conceptualizations of testimony in art as well as in court, psychotherapy and everyday conversation.

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