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

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Socialist Experience and Beyond -- 1 Creatures of the Event: Subject Production in the Reconstruction Era -- 2 Producing Revolutionary Consciousness in the Times of Radical Socialism -- 3 The Testifying Orphan: Rethinking Modernity's Optimism -- 4 Children of the Revolution: The Rebirth of the Subject in Revisionist Discourse -- 5 The Family of Victims: Stalinism Revisited in the 1980s -- Epilogue: The Abandoned Offspring of Late Socialism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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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