Orphans of the East : postwar Eastern European cinema and the revolutionary subject /
Unlike the benevolent orphan found in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid or the sentimentalized figure of Little Orphan Annie, the orphan in postwar East European cinema takes on a more politically fraught role, embodying the tensions of individuals struggling to recover from war and grappling with an u...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the socialist experience and beyond
- Creatures of the event: subject production in the reconstruction era
- Producing revolutionary consciousness in the times of radical socialism
- The testifying orphan: rethinking modernity's optimism
- Children of the revolution: the rebirth of the subject in revisionist discourse
- The family of victims: Stalinism revisited in the 1980s
- Epilogue: the abandoned offspring of late socialism