Orphans of the East Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject

• Main Author: Parvulescu, Constantin
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington ; Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2015
• Edition: 1
• 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

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...