Description
The annexation of Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere after World War II dramatically reshaped popular understandings of the natural environment. With an eco-critical approach, Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe breaks new ground in documenting how filmmakers increasingly saw cinema as a tool to critique the social and environmental damage of large-scale projects from socialist regimes and newly forming capitalist presences. New and established scholars with backgrounds across Europe, the United States, and Australia come together to reflect on how the cultural sphere has, and can still, play a role in redefining our relationship to nature.
Author: Masha Shpolberg
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 10/13/2023
Pages: 321
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781805391050
ISBN10: 1805391054
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Documentary
- History | Eastern Europe | General
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
About the Author
Masha Shpolberg is Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. She is currently at work on a book entitled Labor in Late Socialism: The Cinema of Polish Workers' Unrest. In addition to this volume, she is also co-editor, with Anastasia Kostina, of Contemporary Russian Documentary, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.