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Looking at monuments, murals, computer games, recycling campaigns, children's books, and other visual artifacts,
The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures reassesses communism's historical and cultural legacy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Aga Skrodzka
- Part I. Material Cultures, Technologies, Industries
- 1. Socialist Domestic Infrastructures and the Politics of the Body: Bucharest and Havana
- Iulia St¿tic¿
- 2. Architecture in Series: Housing and Communist Idealism
- Kimberly Zarecor
- 3. Restating Classicist Monumentalism in Soviet Architecture, 1930s-early 1950s
- William C. Brumfield
- 4. Esfir Shub's KShE (1932) and the Movement of Energy
- Joshua Malitsky
- 5. Soviet Wall Newspapers: Social(ist) Media of an Analog Age
- Birgitte Beck Pristed
- 6. Red Stars, Biorhythms, and Circuit Boards: Do-It-Yourself Aesthetics of Computing and Computer Games in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
- Jaroslav %Svelch
- 7. Machines, Nations, and Faciality: Cultivating Mental Eyes in Soviet Books for Children
- Serguei Alex. Oushakine
- Part II. Institutional Discourses, Communist Visions, Theory
- 8. Who Doesn't Like Aleksander Kobzdej? State Artist's Career in the People's Republic of Poland
- Magdalena Moskalewicz
- 9. "How To" Make Art in Communist China
- Vivian Li
- 10. Visions and Visualization of Sustainability: Leningrad Designers in Search of Soviet Recycling System, 1981-84
- Yulia Karpova
- 11. Shaping the Avant-garde: The Reception of Soviet Constructivism by the American Art Journal October
- Pablo Müller
- 12. A Time Lag of defa-futurum: A Socialist Cine-futurism from East Germany
- Doreen Mende
- 13. The Visitation of the Idea: Badiou on Film and Communism
- Rohan Kalyan
- Part III. International and Intercultural Dimensions
- 14. In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China
- Xiaoning Lu
- 15. Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers' Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers' Take on Africa
- Lindiwe Dovey
- 16. Brothers at War: The Images of Prison S-21 (Tuol Sleng) in the Framework of Intra-Communist Conflicts
- Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
- 17. The Constructivist Sartorial Utopia and Its Revolutionary Potential: Then and Now
- Djurdja Bartlett
- 18. "Socialist Realist" Critiques of Neoliberal Shock Therapy: East German Artists Respond to the 1973 Putsch in Chile
- April A. Eisman
- Part IV. Visual Production and Strategic Spectacles
- 19. Beauty and Quality for All: A Vision of Fashion under Cuban Socialism
- María A. Cabrera Arús
- 20. Disappearing from the Picture? Female Figures in Pattern Books of the Mao Years
- Antonia Finnane
- 21. The Subject Who Knows: Photographers and Photographed in a Late East Germany
- Sara Blaylock
- 22. Two Worlds: Boris Efimov, Soviet Political Caricature, and the Construction of the Long Cold War
- Stephen M. Norris
- 23. The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Dang Nhât Minh's New Wave Cinema
- Dana Healy
- 24. The Montage Connection between John Heartfield and László Lakner: Artistic Dissidence and a New Leftism in Sixties Europe
- Cristina Cuevas-Wolf
- 25. Visual Regimes of Juche Ideology in North Korea's The Country I Saw
- Travis Workman
- Part V. After-images, Memory, Legacy
- 26. Television and The Good Times of Socialism
- Anikó Imre
- 27. Futures Remembered: Kosmonauts, the GDR, and the Retrospective Impulse
- Nick Hodgin
- 28. Contesting the Cuban Soviet Visual Rhetoric for the Present
- Jacqueline Loss
- 29. Komunistki: Visual Memory of Female Communist Agency
- Aga Skrodzka
- 30. Specters of Europe and Anti-communist Visual Rhetoric in the Romanian Film of the Early 1990s
- Constantin Parvulescu and Claudiu Turcü
- 31. Lenin in Los Angeles: Counter-Memories, Recycling Socialism
- Katarzyna Marciniak
- Coda: Flashes of Arab Communism
- Laura Marks
About the author
Aga Skrodzka is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Clemson University, where she spearheaded the creation of the World Cinema Program. She is the author of Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe and a forthcoming book on the figure of the sex slave in visual culture.
Xiaoning Lu is Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Cultures at SOAS, University of London. Her research, which focuses on Chinese socialist cinema and culture, has appeared in journals and edited collections including the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Journal of Contemporary China, Maoist Laughter, and Words and Their Stories: Essays on Chinese Revolutionary Discourse.
Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies at Ohio University, where she specializes in the discourses of immigration and foreignness. She is the author of Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland and co-editor of Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy and Transnational Feminism in Film and Media.
Summary
Looking at monuments, murals, computer games, recycling campaigns, children's books, and other visual artifacts, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures reassesses communism's historical and cultural legacy.
