Film and Freedoms of Expression: Production, Aesthetics, Mediology (Late Socialism and Beyond)

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel explores contexts and connotations of freedom in late socialist and post-Cold-War Eastern European film in three perspectives. The notion of “independence” is contextualized for film as institution functioning between free capitalist market and state. The artistic “reformation” of the Russian and East European cinema of the early 1990s is analyzed against the backdrop of film’s aesthetic interrelation with television. To show the liberating capabilities of film as medium, the panel examines reflections on film in literary texts with plots connected to perestroika and Putin’s telecracy.

Sub Unit

• Cinema, Television, Electronic Media

Chair

• Valery Vyugin, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) RAS (Russia)

Papers

• Film Liberation in the 21st Century: Ambiguity of Independent Bulgarian Cinema - Petia Alexandrova Alexandrova, New Bulgarian U (Bulgaria)

• Under the Sign of Television: New Poetics in Soviet Films of Perestroika - Mariia Zhukova, U of Konstanz (Germany)

• Film as Dissident in Literary Television-Plots of Vladimir Sorokin - Innokentij Urupin, U of Konstanz (Germany)

Discussant

• Volha Isakava, Central Washington U