Fall 2021 – Contemporary Documentary in Central and Eastern Europe (Bilingual Edition)

The concept of Central and Eastern Europe is a battleground for political and historical interpretations. Without intending to draw borders and to make exclusions, we approach Central and Eastern European documentaries from their common history, and we think the region can be regarded as a unique entity in its own term. Based on parallel historical processes, significant common features emerge that allow us to ask about the possible regional similarities, parallels and trends in the development of relevant segments of the industry and the art of cinema and documentary film. The range of historical parallels include the following: from the middle of the twentieth century onwards, first the period of state-socialist political system with its close dependence on the Soviet Union (or annexation to the Soviet Union in the case of the Baltic States), forty-fifty years later the economic-political transition that began in 1989 (or a little later in the Baltic States), building the foundations of democracy and a market economy, then joining the European integration process, and finally the accession to the European Union in the first decade of the 2000s (or the start of EU negotiations in some Balkan countries, Serbia, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia). Publishing the studies in a bilingual form, we wish to reach both Hungarian and international audiences. We consider it particularly important to publish a special thematic issue on the documentary culture of the region in English, as there is a lack of such thematic summaries in international literature.

Editors: Lóránt Stőhr and Ervin Török

Proofreading: Ágnes Matuska

 

Lóránt Stőhr ‒ Ervin Török: Introduction to the Thematic Issue “Contemporary Documentary in Central and Eastern Europe”

Renata Šukaitytė: Contemporary Lithuanian Documentary Cinema: A Critical Overview of Main Film Directions

Jitka Lanšperková: A New Ecosystem of Czech Documentary Production in the 90s

Péter Gerencsér: Velvet (Re-)Generation: New Slovak Documentarism after the Turn of the Millennium

Ervin Török: Inventions of Personalness in Hungarian Documentary Filmmaking

Kamilla Simor: The Documentary Representation of Late Modern Warfare and the Perceptual Context of Video-selfies

Eszter Zimanyi: Secrets, Surveillance, and Fragments: Some Contemporary Documentary Challenges to Post-Socialist Europe’s Regional Brand

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