Russian Film Symposium: Global Amnesia 3

[Vladimir Padunov]

Russian Film Symposium 2002.
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/
Global Amnesia 3. Central Asian Cinema and Film Genres.

Central to the final part of the series Global Amnesia is the
appropriation by a new generation of Central Asian filmmakers
of Western (and Eastern) genres: film noir, the road film,
the samurai film and the spaghetti  Western, the magic
journey.  Some critics argue that mastery of the film
industry's dominant genres is proof that recent Central
Asian films are directed primarily at an international
audience, not a domestic one, either regional or national.
Others claim, citing the same visual texts and textual
evidence, that recent Central Asian films present one of
the clearest demonstrations of the ability of the local to
integrate into and transform the global.  The four films in the
series-three Kazakh and one Tadjik (all 1991-2001)
-acknowledge and celebrate a film genre not traditional
to the region, while at the same time transforming that
genre with its innovative-that is, non-Western-tropes,
editing rhythm, and cultural references.

Saturday 16 November - Sunday, 8 December 2002,
two screenings each (Saturdays at 7:30 and
Sundays at 5:00).  All films with English subtitles


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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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