Full Description
This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon. The author's analysis places leading directors—Shaken Aimanov, Abdulla Karsakbaev, Sultan-Akhmet Khodzhikov, Mazhit Begalin—in their sociopolitical and cultural context.
Contents
Chapter 1: The First and Second Birth of Kazakhstani Cinema
Chapter 2: Heroic Interlude in Alma-Ata
Chapter 3: The Third Birth
Chapter 4: The Mid-1950s: A Cautious Emancipation
Chapter 5: En Route to Complexity I: Capturing the Present
Chapter 6: En Route to Complexity II: Capturing the Past
Chapter 7: The Searchings of Shaken Aimanov
Chapter 8: Hits and Anti-Hits
Chapter 9: The New Status Quo
Chapter 10: State Cinema and Its Subversion
Chapter 11: Crisis and Reconstruction
Chapter 12: From Perestroika to Katastroika
