Film and Identity in Kazakhstan : Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia.

Cover -- Title -- Copyrights -- Dedication -- Content -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction From Constructed to Contested Nations: Theorising and Analysing Nation and Cinema -- Nations as Constructed -- Nations as Contested and Multiple -- Enter Cinema: Nationalist Myth-making and Myth-breaking -- Multiple Nationalisms and National Identities in Kazakhstan -- Analytical Framework and Methods -- Structure of the Book -- 1 Kazakh Khanate to Kazakh Eli: Nation-building in Kazakhstan in Historical and Political Context -- Ethno-genesis of the Kazakhstani Nation and the Rise and Fall of the Kazakh Khanate -- The Development of Nationalist Movements in Kazakhstan under Russian Rule -- Soviet Nation-building in Kazakhstan -- Post-Soviet Nation-building -- Conclusion -- 2 Between Two Worlds: Kazakh Film and Nation-building in the Soviet Era -- The Development of the Cinema Industry in the Soviet Union and Central Asia -- Antecedents to the Birth of Kazakh Cinema -- The Emergence of Kazakh Cinema and Shaken Aimanov -- 1960 - 1970s: The National Awakening in Kazakh Cinema: The Two Worlds of Soviet Kazakh Cinema -- Conclusion: Influence of Kazakh Soviet Cinema -- 3 The Disruption of Time: The 'Kazakh New Wave' 1985 - 95 -- Introduction -- Emergence of the New Wave -- 'Kazakh New Wave' as a Disruption of Empty Homogenous Time -- The Re-imagination of Kazakh History -- The Negation of Soviet Authority -- Capturing Transition on Screen -- After the 'Kazakh New Wave -- Conclusion -- 4 Naked in the Mirror: The Ethno-centric Narrative of Kazakh Nationhood -- Introduction -- The Context of the Cinema Industry in post-Soviet Kazakhstan -- Defence of the Homeland -- Ethnic Identity -- Power and Regime Legitimation -- Reception -- Conclusion.

5 May the Grass Never Grow at Your Door:The Civic Conception of Nationhood in Kazakh Cinema -- Inter-ethnic Harmony and Stability -- Kazakh Batyrs as Kind,Open and Hospitable -- Interpretation of History and Soviet Authority -- Reception -- Conclusion -- 6 'Hymn to Mother': Tengrism, Motherhood and Nationhood -- Tengrism -- Literal Representations of Tengrism in Contemporary Kazakh Cinema -- Historical-philosophical Symbolic Representation of Tengrism in Contemporary Kazakh Cinema -- Quasi-primordial Symbolic Representation: Women, Family and the Cycle of Birth, Life and Death -- Controversy and Reception -- Conclusion -- 7 The Steppe, Disorientation, Division and Corruption: Social and Economic Visions of Modern Nationhood -- The Kazakh Steppe -- The Urban-rural Divide -- Struggles with Bureaucracy and Authority -- Home and Family -- Morality and Wealth Accumulation -- The Government's Image of Modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Heterogeneity of National Identity -- Dissent and Contentious Politics in Cinema -- Film and Nation-building -- Notes -- Filmography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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