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Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia
Rico Isaacs
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Description for Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia
Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FCZ; APFA; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested. Drawing on an analysis of Kazakh films from the last century, and featuring new interviews with directors and critics involved in the Central Asian film industry, his book traces the construction of nationalism within Kazakh cinema from the country's inception as a Soviet Republic to a modern independent nation.Isaacs identifies four narratives since the collapse ... Read more
Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested. Drawing on an analysis of Kazakh films from the last century, and featuring new interviews with directors and critics involved in the Central Asian film industry, his book traces the construction of nationalism within Kazakh cinema from the country's inception as a Soviet Republic to a modern independent nation.Isaacs identifies four narratives since the collapse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784538385
SKU
V9781784538385
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About Rico Isaacs
Rico Isaacs is a Reader in Politics at Oxford Brookes University. His research focuses on nation-building and institutions in post-Soviet Central Asia. He writes regularly on Central Asian politics and culture.
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