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Informationen zum Autor Constantin Parvulescu is Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at University of Navarra, Spain. He is editor (with Robert A. Rosenstone) of A Companion to the Historical Film . Klappentext In these films, the orphan becomes a cinematic trope that interrogates socialist visions of ideological institutionalization and re-education and stands as a silent critic of the system's shortcomings or as a resilient spirit who has resisted capture by the political apparatus of the new state. Zusammenfassung In these films, the orphan becomes a cinematic trope that interrogates socialist visions of ideological institutionalization and re-education and stands as a silent critic of the system's shortcomings or as a resilient spirit who has resisted capture by the political apparatus of the new state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Socialist Experience and Beyond 1. Creatures of the Event: Subject Production in the Reconstruction Era 2. Producing Revolutionary Consciousness in the Times of Radical Socialism 3. The Testifying Orphan: Rethinking Modernity's Optimism 4. Children of the Revolution: The Rebirth of the Subject in Revisionist Discourse 5. The Family of Victims: Stalinism Revisited in the 1980s Epilogue: The Abandoned Offspring of Late Socialism Notes Works Cited Index
