Russian Film Symposium 2002: Global Amnesia

[Vladimir Padunov]

Russian Film Symposium 2002.
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/.
Global Amnesia 1. Central Asian Cinema, 1990-2001.

Recently the former Central Asian republics of the USSR (Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) have been
discovered by international film festivals, both as discrete industries
and as a regional cinema. While some of this shared aesthetic practice
is rooted in the region's close ties to the Russo-Soviet empire (Russian
as the prevailing lingua franca, socialist realism as the dominant
aesthetic method, the Soviet establishment of national film industries
and training generations of filmmakers, etc.), other basic elements are
located in the region's history within non-Western cultural traditions
(Muslim, Persian, and Turkic). These traditions are marked, in part, by
a different conception of narrativity and the implementation of a
competing set of representational codes and systems.

Monday, 25 March - Friday, 29 March 2002, 6:00 - 10:00pm (films with
English subtitles; lectures in English)


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Vladimir Padunov
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1433 Cathedral of Learning             voice: 1-412-624-5713
University of Pittsburgh                    FAX: 1-412-624-9714
Pittsburgh, PA 15260                         padunov+ at pitt.edu

Russian Film Symposium          http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

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