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The haunted present: Slavic neo-noir cinema and television
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film and media studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir.
- Television crime shows.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Academic Studies Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Emerging from the shadows of empire and memory, this groundbreaking study reveals how contemporary Eastern European film and television use neo-noir to confront unresolved trauma, power, and injustice in the post-Soviet world.This collection explores for the first time the pervasive presence of neo-noir film and TV series (including releases on widely popular streaming channels) in recent Balkan, Czech, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian cinema and television. Classic western noirs structural pessimism was driven by a utopian desire for a just society, a quality which made it attractive to all eastern European countries. The films and series in the collection present modern iterations of a still-relevant colonial past, such as the repression of dissent and of sexual minorities, culpability in World War II, and the activities of the security services. Contemporary narratives reveal the effects of the violence released after the collapse of the Soviet Unionthe continuing trauma and scars of an unprocessed past, social dysfunction, organized crime, ecological degradation, exploitation of indigenous populations, and restorative nostalgia for previous systems of governance.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note to Readers
- Introduction / Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys
- The Slavic Balkans
- Neo-Noir after Yugoslavia: The Fourth Man and A Balkan Noir / Marina Filipovic
- The Czech Republic
- The Past in the Shadow: Explorations of Czechoslovak History en noir / Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner
- Poland
- We Have Lost Our Way: The Return of Negative Affect in Contemporary Polish Noir Series / Elzbieta Ostrowska, Kamila Zyto
- A Neo-Noir Cop Out in Piotr Domalewskis Operation Hyacinth (Hiacynt, 2021) / Helena Goscilo
- Russia
- The Ephemeral Presence of Noir in Soviet Cinema / Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov
- Femme Fatale as Wife and Mother in the Russian Television Drama Ordinary Woman / Irina Souch
- We are not in Sweden: The Dead Lake as a Russian Take on Neo-Noir / Tatiana Mikhailova
- Diatlov Pass: Neo-Noir Engages Russias Buried Past / Rimgaila Salys
- Vampires Guard the Status Quo: Russian Gothic Noir in the Pre-War Years (202022) / Mark Lipovetsky
- Our Serial Killers, Ourselves: Russian Neo-Noir TV Series as a Symptom and Self-Incrimination / Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov
- Ukraine
- Towards a Ukrainian Neo-Noir: History, Contexts, and the Case of Oleh Sentsovs Rhino / Vitaly Chernetsky
- Filmography
- Index
- ISBN:
- 979-88-97830-85-5
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