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 Eastern European cinema takes on a more politically fraught role, embodying the tensions of individuals struggling to recover from war and grappling with a...

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Main Author Parvulescu, Constantin
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2015
Edition1
Subjects
20th century
Abandoned children in motion pictures
Europe
Europe, Eastern
Film & Video
Film Studies
HISTORY
History & Criticism
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century
Orphans in motion pictures
PERFORMING ARTS
Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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Summary:Unlike the benevolent orphan found in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid or the sentimentalized figure of Little Orphan Annie, the orphan in postwar Eastern European cinema takes on a more politically fraught role, embodying the tensions of individuals struggling to recover from war and grappling with an unknown future under Soviet rule. By exploring films produced in postwar Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Poland, Parvulescu traces the way in which cinema envisioned and debated the condition of the post-World War II subject and the "new man" of Soviet-style communism. In these films, the orphan becomes a cinematic trope that interrogates socialist visions of ideological institutionalization and re-education and stands as a silent critic of the system's shortcomings or as a resilient spirit who has resisted capture by the political apparatus of the new state.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-182) and index
ISBN:0253016738
9780253016737
0253016851
9780253016850
0253017653
9780253017659