Chapter one: From Constructed to Contested Nations: Theorising and analysing nation and cinema 1 Chapter Two: Kazakh Khanate to Kazakh Eli: Nation-Building in Kazakhstan in Historical and Political Context 40 Chapter Three: Between two worlds: Kazakh film and Nation-building in the Soviet era 75 Chapter Four: The Disruption of Time: the Kazakh New Wave 1985-1995 109 Chapter Five: Naked in the Mirror: the ethno-centric narrative of Kazakh nationhood 150 Chapter Six: May the Grass Never Grow at Your Door: the civic conception of nationhood in Kazakh cinema 186 Chapter Seven: ‘Hymn to Mother’ - Tengrism, motherhood and nationhood 211 Chapter Eight: The Steppe, disorientation, division and corruption: social and economic visions of modern nationhood 241 Conclusion 289 Notes 309
Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations?
Rico Isaacs is Associate Professor of Politics at University of Lincoln, UK. His research focuses on nation-building and institutions in post-Soviet Central Asia. He writes regularly on Central Asian politics and culture.
An intelligent and thought-provoking monograph, which not only
offers a fresh approach to national identity, but which also offers
a valuable survey of how national identity functions in Kazakhstani
cinema ... Overall, this book is an impressive achievement, both in
terms of Isaac's nuanced contribution to the literature on national
identity, as well his treatment of cinema ... [Isaacs] carried out
qualitative audience research, running focus groups with viewers in
Kazakhstan, as well as interviews with leading directors. This
material enriches and enlivens the monograph.
*Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema*
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