Past for the Eyes
East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989
How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes.
After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage...
Éditeur : Central European University Press
Lieu d’édition : Budapest
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 23 janvier 2013
ISBN numérique : 978-615-5211-43-0
Collection : CEUP collection
Année d’édition : 2008
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-963-9776-03-6
Nombre de pages : 436
Documents of Communism: Lost and Found
István Rév
The Man in the White RaincoatRenáta Uitz
Communist Secret Services on the ScreenThe Duna-gate Scandal in and beyond the Hungarian Media
Alexandru Solomone
The Experiences of a FilmmakerReconstructing Reality from Documents in Communist Archives
Subjects of Nostalgia: Selling the Past
Kacper Pobłocki
The Economics of NostalgiaSocialist Films and Capitalist Commodities in Contemporary Poland
Petra Dominková
“We Have Democracy, Don’t We?”Czech Society as Reflected in Contemporary Czech Cinema
Objects of Memory: Museums, Monuments, Memorials
Zsolt K. Horváth
The Redistribution of the Memory of SocialismIdentity Formations of the “Survivors” in Hungary after 1989
Gabriela Cristea et Simina Radu-Bucurenci
Raising the CrossExorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorials and Monuments
Nikolai Vukov
The “Unmemorable” and the “Unforgettable”“Museumizing” the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria
How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes.
After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible.
Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.
"Books on the CEE transformations that deal with media and popular cultures should be welcomed. Past for the Eyes belongs to this extraordinary breed.
The book is devoted to the visual representations of the socialist / communist past and the forms they took. The interconnected processes of visualization of the past, and the collective memory sedimentation are the main focus.
The book brings together perspectives of linked but still distinctive ways of enquiry: visual studies, cultural studies, area studies, museum studies and contemporary history with its passion for ethnography and oral evidence.
OSA Archivum; International Documentary Film Festival Verzio, Budapest
Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies at the Central European University
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