Rico Isaacs (UK University of Lincoln)

Film and Identity in Kazakhstan

Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations?

Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury 3PL
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781784538385
• ISBN-10: 1784538388
• Artikelnr.: 48580964

Autorenporträt

Rico Isaacs is Associate Professor of Politics at University of Lincoln, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter one: From Constructed to Contested Nations: Theorising and
analysing nation and cinema
1
Chapter Two: Kazakh Khanate to Kazakh Eli: Nation-Building in Kazakhstan in
Historical and Political Context
40
Chapter Three: Between two worlds: Kazakh film and Nation-building in the
Soviet era
75
Chapter Four: The Disruption of Time: the Kazakh New Wave 1985-1995
109
Chapter Five: Naked in the Mirror: the ethno-centric narrative of Kazakh
nationhood
150
Chapter Six: May the Grass Never Grow at Your Door: the civic conception of
nationhood in Kazakh cinema
186
Chapter Seven: 'Hymn to Mother' - Tengrism, motherhood and nationhood
211
Chapter Eight: The Steppe, disorientation, division and corruption: social
and economic visions of modern nationhood
241
Conclusion
289
Notes
309