Film and Identity in Kazakhstan - Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central AsiaPevná vazba
Film and Identity in Kazakhstan - Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central AsiaPevná vazba Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding…
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Film and Identity in Kazakhstan - Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central AsiaPevná vazba
Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations? Drawing on an analysis of Kazakh films from the last century, and featuring new interviews with directors and critics involved in the Central Asian film industry, his book traces the construction of nationalism within Kazakh cinema from the country's inception as a Soviet Republic to a modern independent nation. Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested.
Isaacs identifies four narratives since the collapse of the Soviet Union: a warrior-like 'ethnic' narrative rooted in the 18th Century struggles against the Mongolian Oirat tribes; a 'civic' inspired narrative cemented in the Stalinist deportations of the 1930s and 40s; a religious
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