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Beauty is in the Street
'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator 'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, The Observer 'An ambitious and masterly account of utopian protest in Europe ... Fast-paced, with an eye for telling detail and written with a light touch' Robert Gildea In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and r...
Remapping Cold War Media
Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama? Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, politic...
Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalonia, Spain), among others. With a special focus on historical and political developments, this first volume draws a map of documentary festivals operating today, and then looks at their origins and evolution. This volume is organized in three sections: the first addresses methodological problems film h...
Transnational Cinema Solidarity
"After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction films, documentaries, animations, videos, and works for television. Josâe Miguel Palacios builds upon extensive archival research to trace a transnational history of this radical cinema, beginning with its emergence out of global solidarity networks in the 1970s. Chronicling the dangerous efforts to smuggle film reels out of Chile, the discourses of political cinema these films inspired as they traveled between film festivals, and these film prints' unfinished process of return to Chilean archives and museums over the last two decades, Transnational Cinema Solidarity offers a politicized understanding of world and transnational cinema that emphasizes geopolitical relations and cinematic alliances based on solidarity"--
Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film
Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film introduces the reader to this east-German filmmaker who, despite having made 40 films from the east side of the Berlin Wall, is practically unknown. Through the comparison of films made in the same year, one by an American and one by Böttcher, the author places him as ahead of his time in regards to technology, content, and style, and neck-and-neck with contemporary American filmmakers in cinéma vérité/direct cinema. The book moves beyond Böttcher’s dramatic biography to explore his role in the history of film. Was it actually the Germans who created sync sound for documentary? When and how were women featured? Offering a concise journey through the history of documentary film within this cultural context, but also a deep-dive into specific case-studies that show the nuances and complexities of classifying film texts, this volume will interest students and scholars of film studies, German cinema, cinéma vérité, film production, film theory, and world cinema.
World Socialist Cinema
One of the Best Scholarly Books of 2023, The Chronicle of Higher Education A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist Cinema maps the circulation of films between the Soviet Bloc and the countries of the Global South in the mid- to late twentieth century, illustrating the distribution networks, festival circuits, and informal channels that facilitated this international network of artistic and intellectual exchange. Building on decades of meticulous archival work, this long-anticipated film history unsettles familiar stories to provide an alternative to Eurocentric, national, and regional narratives, rooted outside of the capitalist West.
European Solidarity with Chile, 1970s-1980s
The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973 drew worldwide attention towards Chile. The political repression shook the world and ignited one of the largest social movements of the 1970s and 80s. Hundreds of solidarity committees and a gamut of human rights and justice organizations mobilized thousands of people. This volume offers a compelling insight into the exceptional impact that the Chilean crisis made in Western and Eastern Europe. In doing so, it provides a new and broader perspective into the history of the Cold War, transnational activism, and human rights.
Un haut fonctionnaire est-allemand aux prises avec l'intelligentsia (1963 - 1989)
En suivant quatre écrivains est-allemands, cet ouvrage s'intéresse à Kurt Hager, haut fonctionnaire décrié, "idéologue en chef", "censeur suprême" du régime est-allemand, qui a joué un rôle en interaction avec les instances de la politique culturelle, au-delà des idées préconçues. Cette étude pose les questions fondamentales sur ce régime, autant sur la mainmise du SED sur l'appareil d'Etat que sur les ressources des intellectuels dans leurs négociations avec le pouvoir.
Contribution à une histoire de la modernité musicale
En 1982, la musique contemporaine s'enrichit d'un nouveau festival, Angers, Musiques du XXe siècle, imaginé par des acteurs culturels angevins et soutenu par Maurice Fleuret, Directeur de la musique. L'année suivante, l'Intercontemporain inaugure la première édition. Sept ans durant, le compositeur Roger Tessier programme un vaste panorama de la musique contemporaine. L'événement devient un rendez-vous incontournable de la création, un moment d'effervescence et de découvertes où se croisent curieux, amateurs et spécialistes.
Figures de l'Outsider en Amérique hispanique
L'objectif de cet essai, qui s'appuie sur des figures d'outsiders hispano-américains (Chili, Costa Rica et Mexique), est de comprendre, d'une part, les mécanismes sociétaux qui les produisent et, d'autre part, d'analyser les différentes actions mises en place par ces outsiders afin de s'y opposer ainsi que leurs résultats. Il s'agit donc d'une étude s'inscrivant pleinement dans l'entreprise déconstructiviste opérée par le postmodernisme et le post-colonialisme qui interrogent respectivement les grandes idéologies totalisantes comme la religion, la nature, la science, la famille, le patriarcat, etc.
