Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe - From Communism to Capitalism

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.

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.

Lukas Brasiskis is an adjunct professor at New York University and CUNY/Brooklyn College, as well as Associate Curator of Film and Video for e-flux. His texts were previously published in journals, such as Found Footage Magazine, The Cine-Files, Screening the Past, and Senses of Cinema. He is a co-editor of Jonas Mekas: The Camera was Always Running (Yale University Press, 2022).

Product details

• Authors: Lukas Brasiskis, Lukas Shpolberg Brasiskis, Masha Shpolberg
• Assisted by: Lukas Brasiskis (Editor), Masha Shpolberg (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781805391050
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-105-0
• No. of pages: 321
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book; Eastern Europe, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Environmentalist thought & ideology, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Film Theory & Criticism, Marxism & Communism, Film history, theory or criticism