Past for the Eyes
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
eBook, English, 2008
Central European University Press, S.L., 2008
1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource (Seiten))
9789639776036, 9786155211430, 9639776033, 6155211434
1002885167
IntroductionPart One: Documents of Communism: Lost and FoundRév: The Man in the White RaincoatUitz: Communist Secret Services on the Screen: The Adventures of the Duna-gate Scandal in and Beyond Hungarian MediaVarga: Façades: Private and Public in Kádár’s Kiss by Péter ForgácsSolomon: Filmmaker’s Experience: Reconstructing Reality from Communist Archive DocumentsPart Two: Subjects of Nostalgia: Selling the PastDaković: Out of the Past: Memories and Nostalgia in (Post) Yugoslav CinemaSarkisova: Long Farewells: The Anatomy of the Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian CinemaPobłocki: The Economics of Nostalgia: Socialist Films and Capitalist Commodities in Contemporary PolandDominková: “We have democracy, don’t we?” Czech Society Reflected by Contemporary Czech CinemaPart Three: Objects of Memory: Museums, Monuments, MemorialsHorváth: The Redistribution of the Memory of Socialism: Identity Formations in Hungary after 1989Cristea - Radu-Bucurenci: Raising the Cross. Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorials and MonumentsVukov: The “Unmemorable” and the “Unforgettable”: “Museumizing” the Socialist Past in Post-1989 BulgariaMark: Containing Fascism: History in Post-Communist Baltic Occupation and Genocide MuseumsMain: How Communism Is Displayed? Exhibitions and Museums of Communism in Poland