Past for the Eyes

• Main Author: Oksana Sarkisova, Péter Apor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2008
• Subjects: Painting & paintings; archives; post-1989 Bulgaria; Czech cinema; Hungarian cinema; World War I; Russian cinema; post-communist period; motion pictures; Central Europe; documentary film; Balkan wars; museums; post-1989; culture; picturing; Yugoslav cinema; Southeastern Europe; communism; Polish cinema; World War II
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How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today's Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history "ended" in the Eastern Bloc in 198...