Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe: From Communism to Capitalism - Paperback

by Masha Shpolberg (Editor), Lukas Brasiskis (Editor)

• Explores Eastern European cinema's shift from socialist-industrial landscapes to capitalist environmental crises.
• Applies eco-critical film theory to formerly communist states, combining environmental studies and film studies.
• Shows how filmmakers in the Soviet bloc used cinema to critique ecological damage and modernization.
• Captures transitional issues-privatization, commons destruction, post-1989 eco-cinema in Eastern Europe.

Author Biography

Masha Shpolberg is Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. She is currently at work on a book entitled Labor in Late Socialism: The Cinema of Polish Workers' Unrest. In addition to this volume, she is also co-editor, with Anastasia Kostina, of Contemporary Russian Documentary, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.