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Contested interpretations of the past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian film, screen as battlefield, volume editor, Sander Brouwer

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Contested interpretations of the past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian film

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volume editor, Sander Brouwer

Studies in Slavic literature and poetics, 60

screen as battlefield

Questions of collective identity and nationhood dominate the memory debate in both the high and popular cultures of postsocialist Russia, Poland and Ukraine. Often the Soviet and Russian identity are reconstructed as identical; others remember the Soviet regime as an anonymous supranational Empire, in which both Russian and non-Russian national cultures were destroyed. At the heart of this empire talk is a series of questions pivoting on the opposition between constructed ethnic and imperial identities. Did ethnic Russians constitute the core group who implemented the Soviet Terror, e.g. the mass murders of the Poles in Katyn and the Ukrainians in the Holodomor? Or were Russians themselves victims of a faceless totalitarianism? The papers in this volume explore the divergent and conflicting ways in which the Soviet regime is remembered and re-imagined in contemporary Russian, Polish and Ukrainian cinema and media.--, Provided by Publisher

Sander Brouwer ✹ Introduction Vitaly Chernetsky ✹ Between the Poetic and the Documentary: Ukrainian Cinema's Responses to World War II Lars Kristensen ✹ Wanna Be in the New York Times?: Epic History and War City as Global Cinema Ewa Hanna Mazierska ✹ At War: Polish-Russian Relations in Recent Polish Films Matilda Mroz ✹ Displacement, Suffering and Mourning: Post-war Landscapes in Contemporary Polish Cinema Mirosław Przylipiak ✹ I Am Afraid of this Land: The Representation of Russia in Polish Documentaries about the Smolensk Plane Crash Olga Briukhovetska ✹ Nuclear Belonging: Chernobyl in Belarusian, Ukrainian (and Russian) films Sander Brouwer ✹ From Empire to Smuta and back. The Mythopoetics of Cyclical History in Russian Film and TV-Documentaries Sander Brouwer ✹ Tsar Peter, Mazepa and Ukraine: A Love Triangle. Iurii Illienko's A Prayer for hetman Mazepa Mariëlle W. Wijermars ✹ Encircling an Unrepresentable Past: The Aesthetic of Trauma in Karen Shakhnazarov's Dreams (1993)