Experimental Cinemas in State Socialist Eastern Europe

Gurshtein, Ksenya (Editor)/ Selejan, Ileana (Contributor)/ Simonyi, Sonja (Editor)/ Gelencsér, Gábor (Contributor)/ Cuir, Greg Jr. (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 9462982996 / ISBN 13: 9789462982994

Edité par Amsterdam Univ Pr, 2022

330 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. N° de réf. du vendeur __9462982996

Synopsis :

Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist Eastern Europe? Who conducted them, where, how, and why? These are the questions answered in this volume, the first of its kind in any language. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, the book offers case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and former Yugoslavia. Together, these contributions demonstrate the variety of makers, production contexts, and aesthetic approaches that shaped a surprisingly robust and diverse experimental film output in the region. The book maps out the terrain of our present-day knowledge of cinematic experimentalism in Eastern Europe, suggests directions for further research, and will be of interest to scholars of film and media, art historians, cultural historians of Eastern Europe, and anyone concerned with questions of how alternative cultures emerge and function under repressive political conditions.

À propos des auteurs: Ksenya Gurshtein is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art, and her academic research has focused on post-war conceptual, experimental, and neo-avant-garde art in Eastern Europe. Her scholarship and criticism have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines, exhibition catalogs, and online.

Sonja Simonyi is an independent scholar working on the audiovisual cultures of socialist Eastern Europe. She completed her dissertation at New York University's Department of Cinema Studies and her writings on both popular and experimental film have appeared in a number of art magazines, edited volumes, as well as academic journals.

Dr. Gábor Gelencsér is a professor of film studies at the ELTE University in Budapest. He has published on various aspects of Hungarian film culture in magazines, journals, and edited volumes and has written six monographs (in Hungarian), including books on the aesthetics of Hungarian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s (2002) and a study of the relationship between cinema and literature in postwar Hungarian film (2015). He also coedited the exhibition catalog on the history of the Hungarian Balázs Béla Studio (2009).

Dr. Greg de Cuir Jr. is an independent curator, writer, and translator who lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. He is cofounder and managing editor of the journal NECSUS, as well as editor of the book series Eastern European Screen Cultures, both published by Amsterdam University Press. De Cuir Jr. received his DPhil from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at University of Arts Belgrade.

Lukasz Mojsak is an independent curator of art and film as well as a writer and translator. He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Between 2011 and 2016, he worked at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. He currently collaborates with the Arton Foundation in Warsaw and was the cocurator of the Polish Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Experimental Cinemas in State Socialist ...
Éditeur : Amsterdam Univ Pr
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Brand New