Orphans of the East : postwar Eastern European cinema and the revolutionary subject / Constantin Parvulescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parvulescu, Constantin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphans in motion pictures.

Abandoned children in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, [Indiana] ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In these films, the orphan becomes a cinematic trope that interrogates socialist visions of ideological institutionalization and re-education and stands as a silent critic of the system's shortcomings or as a resilient spirit who has resisted capture by the political apparatus of the new state.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Socialist Experience and Beyond; 1 Creatures of the Event: Subject Production in the Reconstruction Era; 2 Producing Revolutionary Consciousness in the Times of Radical Socialism; 3 The Testifying Orphan: Rethinking Modernity's Optimism; 4 Children of the Revolution: The Rebirth of the Subject in Revisionist Discourse; 5 The Family of Victims: Stalinism Revisited in the 1980's; Epilogue: The Abandoned Offspring of Late Socialism; Notes; Works Cited; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253017659

0253017653

OCLC:

906576638