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Orphans of the East

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253016737
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.436526945
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 189
Weight: 476g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm