Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject Contributor(s): Parvulescu, Constantin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253016738 ISBN-13: 9780253016737 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 791.436 |
LCCN: 2014045514 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Unlike the benevolent orphan found in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid or the sentimentalized figure of Little Orphan Annie, the orphan in postwar Eastern European cinema takes on a more politically fraught role, embodying the tensions of individuals struggling to recover from war and grappling with an unknown future under Soviet rule. By exploring films produced in postwar Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Poland, Parvulescu traces the way in which cinema envisioned and debated the condition of the post-World War II subject and the new man of Soviet-style communism. 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. |