Past for the Eyes
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Past for the Eyes

East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums After 1989

  1. 436 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Past for the Eyes

East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums After 1989

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Past for the Eyes by Oksana Sarkisova, Péter Apor, Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & History of Contemporary Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. DOCUMENTS OF COMMUNISM: LOST AND FOUND
  7. The Man in the White Raincoat
  8. Communist Secret Services on the Screen. - The Duna-gate Scandal in and beyond the Hungarian Med
  9. Façades. - The Private and the Public in Kádár’s Kiss by Péter Forgács
  10. The Experiences of a Filmmaker. - Reconstructing Reality from Documents in Communist Archives
  11. Subjects of Nostalgia: Selling the Past
  12. Out of the Past. - Memories and Nostalgia in (Post-)Yugoslav Cinema
  13. Long Farewells. The Anatomy of the Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian Cinema
  14. The Economics of Nostalgia. - Socialist Films and Capitalist Commodities in Contemporary Poland
  15. “We Have Democracy, Don’t We?” - Czech Society as Reflected in Contemporary Czech Cinema
  16. OBJECTS OF MEMORY: MUSEUMS, MONUMENTS, MEMORIALS
  17. The Redistribution of the Memory of Socialism. - Identity Formations of the “Survivors” in Hungary after 1989
  18. Raising the Cross. - Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorialsand Monuments
  19. The “Unmemorable” and the “Unforgettable.” - “Museumizing” the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria
  20. Containing Fascism. History in Post-Communist Baltic Occupation and Genocide Museums
  21. How Is Communism Displayed? Exhibitions and Museums of Communism in Poland
  22. About the Authors
  23. Name Index
  24. Subject Index