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  • Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject
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  • Constantin Parvulescu
  • 2015
  • Published by: Indiana University Press
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Unlike the benevolent orphan found in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid or the sentimentalized figure of Little Orphan Annie, the orphan in postwar Eastern European cinema takes on a more politically fraught role, embodying the tensions of individuals struggling to recover from war and grappling with an unknown future under Soviet rule. By exploring films produced in postwar Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Poland, Parvulescu traces the way in which cinema envisioned and debated the condition of the post-World War II subject and the "new man" of Soviet-style communism. In these films, the orphan becomes a cinematic trope that interrogates socialist visions of ideological institutionalization and re-education and stands as a silent critic of the system's shortcomings or as a resilient spirit who has resisted capture by the political apparatus of the new state.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Introduction: The Socialist Experience and Beyond
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. 1. Creatures of the Event: Subject Production in the Reconstruction Era
  2. pp. 17-43
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  1. 2. Producing Revolutionary Consciousness in the Times of Radical Socialism
  2. pp. 44-69
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  1. 3. The Testifying Orphan: Rethinking Modernity’s Optimism
  2. pp. 70-91
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  1. 4. Children of the Revolution: The Rebirth of the Subject in Revisionist Discourse
  2. pp. 92-117
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  1. 5. The Family of Victims: Stalinism Revisited in the 1980s
  2. pp. 118-137
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  1. Epilogue: The Abandoned Offspring of Late Socialism
  2. pp. 138-158
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 159-176
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 177-182
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 183-189
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  1. About the Author
  2. p. 190
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