02958 a2200517 4500 OB-ceup-637 FrMaCLE 20251214082601.0 cu ||||||m|||| 130122e||||||||xx |||||s|||||||||0|en|d 978-615-5211-43-0 FR-FrMaCLE eng Sarkisova, Oksana Past for the Eyes : East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989 / Oksana Sarkisova, Péter Apor. Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013. 436 p. Ebook How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past. "Books on the CEE transformations that deal with media and popular cultures should be welcomed. Past for the Eyes belongs to this extraordinary breed. The book is devoted to the visual representations of the socialist / communist past and the forms they took. The interconnected processes of visualization of the past, and the collective memory sedimentation are the main focus. The book brings together perspectives of linked but still distinctive ways of enquiry: visual studies, cultural studies, area studies, museum studies and contemporary history with its passion for ethnography and oral evidence. OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554 Art Film Radio Television Central Europe Southeastern Europe post-communist period post-1989 culture communism picturing motion pictures documentary film museums archives Hungarian cinema Russian cinema Yugoslav cinema Czech cinema Polish cinema post-1989 Bulgaria Balkan wars World War I World War II Apor, Péter 978-963-9776-03-6 Sarkisova, Oksana https://books.openedition.org/ceup/637 Past for the Eyes 3216 3216