Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond

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Edited by Clemens Gnther and Matthias Schwartz

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Documentary

Keywords

documentary, aesthetics, Eastern Europe

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Brill

Collection

Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 349 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-90-04-53309-7

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Book Presentation:
This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during the cultural-political transition of the long 1960s. This documentary first-hand approach to the world aimed to break up unquestioned ideological structures and expose tabooed truths in order to engender much-needed social changes. New ways of depicting daily life, writing testimony or subjective reportage emerged that still shape cultural debates today.

About the authors:
Clemens Günther, Ph.D, Freie Universität Berlin, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies. His research interests comprise the late and post-Soviet historical novel, the cultural history of cybernetics, climate fiction, and the ecological poetics of Russian realism.Matthias Schwartz, Ph.D, is co-head of the program area World Literature at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Eastern European socialist and post-socialist literatures, memory cultures, and popular cultures in a comparative perspective.

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