KOHT ja PAIK /
PLACE and LOCATION
Studies in Environmental Aesthetics
and Semiotics VII
Erinumber / Special issue
Via Transversa: Lost Cinema of the Former Eastern Bloc
Eds. Eva Näripea, Andreas Trossek
Design and layout by Jaan Evart
Tallinn 2008 – 272 p.
ISSN 1736-2326
ISBN 978-9985-9946-0-3
Published by
The Research Group of Cultural and Literary Theory, Estonian Literary Museum
Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts
Estonian Semiotics Association
Editorial Board:
Sven Arntzen (Telemark University College)
Arnold Berleant (Long Island University)
Pauline von Bonsdorff (University of Jyväskylä)
Mark Gottdiener (University at Buffalo)
Andres Kurg (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Kaia Lehari (Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
Mara Miller (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Hannes Palang (Tallinn University)
Anti Randviir (University of Tartu)
Yrjö Sepänmaa (University of Joensuu)
Göran Sonesson (Lund University)
Peeter Torop (University of Tartu)
Published under target-financed research topic no. SF0030054s08
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Contents
Foreword pp. 7-11 [pdf]
SUBVERSION/OBEDIENCE
KATARZYNA MARCINIAK
How Does Cinema Become Lost? The Spectral Power of Socialism pp. 15–28 [pdf]
ANDREAS TROSSEK
When Did It Get Political? Soviet Film Bureaucracy and Estonian Hand-Drawn Animation pp. 31-45 [pdf]
MARI LAANISTE
Pushing the Limits: Priit Pärn’s Animated Cartoons and Soviet Cinema Censorship pp. 47-55 [pdf]
MARUTA Z. VITOLS
Cinematic Weapons: Subversion and Resistance in Juris Podnieks’ Newsreels and Short Documentaries pp. 57–72 [pdf]
NATALIA ZLYDNEVA
The Trace of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Educational Cinema pp. 75-83 [pdf]
KRISTEL KOTTA
Why Was The Mahtra War Never Filmed? A Banned Project pp. 85-93 [pdf]
SPECTATORSHIP, NATION, GENRE
KATIE TRUMPENER
‘When Do We Get Our Cinema?’ Stalinist Populism and East German Media Critique pp. 97-107 [pdf]
PETRA HANÁKOVÁ
‘The Films We Are Ashamed of’: Czech Crazy Comedy of the 1970s and 1980s pp. 109-121 [pdf]
ANIKÓ IMRE
Dinosaurs, Moles and Cowboys: Late Communist Youth Media pp. 123-134 [pdf]
BJORN INGVOLDSTAD
The Paradox of Lithuanian National Cinema pp. 137-154 [pdf]
LILLA TÖKE
Idiots on the Ball: Švejkism as a Survival Strategy in the East European Imaginary pp. 157-175 [pdf]
LAURI KÄRK
The Last Relic: From a Genre Film to a Genre Film pp. 177-189 [pdf]
SPATIAL POLITICS
EVA NÄRIPEA
A View from the Periphery. Spatial Discourse of the Soviet Estonian Feature Film: The 1940s and 1950s pp. 193-210 [pdf]
BRINTON TENCH COXE
Screening 1960s Moscow: Marlen Khutsiev’s Ilich’s Gate pp. 213-227 [pdf]
EWA MAZIERSKA
The Politics of Space in Polish Communist Cinema pp. 229–245 [pdf]
IRINA NOVIKOVA
Baltic Cinemas – Flashbacks in/out of the House pp. 247–266 [pdf]
Contributors pp. 270-271 [pdf]