Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe

From Communism to Capitalism

Masha Shpolberg, Lukas Brasiskis, Masha Shpolberg, Lukas Brasiskis

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Année: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781805393757
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Sous-sujet: Film & Video

The 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.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Industrializing the Bloc: Cinema of the Socialist Period
• Part II. Environmental Crisis and the Nuclear Imaginary
• Part III. Animals between the Natural and the Social
• Part IV. From Communism to Capitalism: Privatization and the Commons
• Part V. Toward an Eastern European Ecocinema
• Index