Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 19251991 - An Uneasy Legacy

This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The First and Second Birth of Kazakhstani Cinema
Chapter 2: Heroic Interlude in Alma-Ata
Chapter 3: The Third Birth
Chapter 4: The Mid-1950s: A Cautious Emancipation
Chapter 5: En Route to Complexity I: Capturing the Present
Chapter 6: En Route to Complexity II: Capturing the Past
Chapter 7: The Searchings of Shaken Aimanov
Chapter 8: Hits and Anti-Hits
Chapter 9: The New Status Quo
Chapter 10: State Cinema and Its Subversion
Chapter 11: Crisis and Reconstruction
Chapter 12: From Perestroika to Katastroika

About the author

Peter Rollberg is professor of Slavic Languages, film studies, and international affairs at George Washington University.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Rollberg
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793641748
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-174-8
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures; Contemporary Central Asia: Soc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories