Oksana Sarkisova: 2 books
Past for the Eyes
East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
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...
Screening Soviet Nationalities
Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen. Such films created blueprints of the Soviet domain's scenic, cultural and ethnographic perimeters and brought together – in many ways disparate –...