Past for the eyes : East European representations of communism in cinema and museums after 1989 / edited by Oksana Sarkisova and Peter Apor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarkisova, Oksana, 1974-

Apor, Péter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe, Eastern.

Motion pictures.

Communism and motion pictures.

Communism--Museums.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Central European University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Documents Of Communism: Lost And Found

The Man in the White Raincoat

Communist Secret Services on the Screen. The Duna-gate Scandal in and beyond the Hungarian Media

Façades The Private and the Public in Kádár’s Kiss by Péter Forgács

The Experiences of a Filmmaker. Reconstructing Reality from Documents in Communist Archives

Subjects of Nostalgia: Selling the Past

Out of the Past. Memories and Nostalgia in (Post-)Yugoslav Cinema

Long Farewells. The Anatomy of the Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian Cinema

The Economics of Nostalgia. Socialist Films and Capitalist Commodities in Contemporary Poland

“We Have Democracy, Don’t We?” Czech Society as Reflected in Contemporary Czech Cinema

Objects of Memory: Museums, Monuments, Memorials

The Redistribution of the Memory of Socialism. Identity Formations of the “Survivors” in Hungary after 1989

Raising the Cross. Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorials and Monuments

The “Unmemorable” and the “Unforgettable.” “Museumizing” the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria

Containing Fascism. History in Post-Communist Baltic Occupation and Genocide Museums

How Is Communism Displayed? Exhibitions and Museums of Communism in Poland

About the Authors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-003-72123-0

978-6-15521-143-0

9786155211430

615-5211-43-4

2-8218-1522-0

1-281-12894-5

9786611128944

1-4356-1236-1

9781003721239

OCLC:

182798293