Urban Space on Screen

Cinematographies of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6372-747-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Eastern European Screen Cultures

This edited collection examines how the film cultures of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine have engaged with the built environment. Across political upheavals and shifting borders, filmmakers have documented, interpreted, and imagined
the evolution of urban life.

From Soviet-era planned cities to post-Socialist urban renewal, and from industrial decline to the impact of war on public space, the essays in this volume uncover the role of cinema in constructing—and contesting—visions of urban life. How have films documented social change and revolution, engaged with histories of migration and displacement, and dreamed up alternative urban futures?

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuzma, Konstanty

Pfeifer, Moritz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction KONSTANTY KUZMA AND MORITZ PFEIFER PART I Redefining the Identity of the City 1 A Hollowed City: Lódz in Cinema EWA MAZIERSKA 2 Cinema and Urban Culture in 1930s Lviv: The Circle of the Awangarda Magazine MALGORZATA RADKIEWICZ 3 Flooded Streets and Hollow Monuments: Aesthetics of Political Legitimacy in Revolutionary Cinemas KONSTANTY KUZMA 4 Beneath the Surface of Minsk: Struggle Over Identity in Contemporary Belarusian Cinema ANTONIS LAGARIAS PART II
The Legacy of War 5 Cinema Palaces and Military Barracks: Assimilating the Post-German Space—Cinema in Divided Towns on the Polish–German Border after 1945 MAGDALENA ABRAHAM-DIEFENBACH 6 Wroclaw as the Protagonist of See You on Sunday (1959) ANDRZEJ DEBSKI 7 The Donbas as a Metaphor: The Representation of Post-Industrial and Wartime Landscapes after 2014

KATERYNA IAKOVLENKO PART III Utopian Spaces 8 Between the Town and the Countryside: Utopian Images and Expanses within Soviet Belarusian Films OLGA ROMANOVA 9 The Grain, the Tractor, and the City: VUFKU and the Urban–Rural Conflict (1928–1931) MORITZ PFEIFER 10 Filming Utopia: Atomic Towns in Soviet Ukrainian Documentaries before Chornobyl STANISLAV MENZELEVSKYI Index

Über Autor(innen)

Konstanty Kuzma is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied Philosophy in Berlin, Berkeley, and Munich. He completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and is a research fellow (“wiss. Mitarbeiter”) at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Stuttgart.

Moritz Pfeifer is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied Philosophy, Sociology and Economics in Berlin and Paris. He holds a PhD from the University of Nanterre in Paris and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Economic Policy of the University of Leipzig.