Past for the Eyes

East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989

Oksana Sarkisova et Péter Apor

CEUP collection

Éditeur : Central European University Press

Lieu d’édition : Budapest

Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 23 janvier 2013

Collection : CEUP collection

Année d’édition : 2008

Nombre de pages : 436


Présentation

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.


Sommaire

Péter Apor et Oksana Sarkisova

Introduction

The Futures of the Past

Documents of Communism: Lost and Found

Renáta Uitz

Communist Secret Services on the Screen

The Duna-gate Scandal in and beyond the Hungarian Media

Balázs Varga

Façades

The Private and the Public in Kádár’s Kiss by Péter Forgács

Alexandru Solomone

The Experiences of a Filmmaker

Reconstructing Reality from Documents in Communist Archives

Subjects of Nostalgia: Selling the Past

Nevena Daković

Out of the Past

Memories and Nostalgia in (Post-)Yugoslav Cinema

Oksana Sarkisova

Long Farewells

The Anatomy of the Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian Cinema

Kacper Pobłocki

The Economics of Nostalgia

Socialist 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 Socialism

Identity Formations of the “Survivors” in Hungary after 1989

Gabriela Cristea et Simina Radu-Bucurenci

Raising the Cross

Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorials and Monuments

Nikolai Vukov

The “Unmemorable” and the “Unforgettable”

“Museumizing” the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria

James Mark

Containing Fascism

History in Post-Communist Baltic Occupation and Genocide Museums

Izabella Main

How Is Communism Displayed?

Exhibitions and Museums of Communism in Poland


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