Incommensurable distance : Georgian cinema as a (trans)national cinema

Radunović, Dušan

Incommensurable distance : Georgian cinema as a (trans)national cinema

Radunović, Dušan

Authors

Dr Dusan Radunovic dusan.radunovic@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Contributors

Sanja Bahun
Editor

John Haynes
Editor

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to trace the variegating strategies of identity formation in Georgian cinema, and to interrogate the manifestations of minority identity in the markedly transnational context of Soviet cinema. The particularities of national cinematographies within Soviet cinema were rarely discussed during the Soviet period, and this attitude did not change fundamentally in the years following the collapse of the Soviet state, when the Soviet multi-ethnic model disappeared into thin air, along with the ideological platform on which it stood. Certainly, this is not to say that the issue of ethnic identities had not been recognized as such during Soviet years, or that it was not identified as a concern pertaining to national cinematographies:1 as this essay will show, national cinemas were dealt with by the Soviet state with great care from the very outset and Georgian cinema is the major case in point. This chapter, however, does not aspire to ascertain the visibility of Georgian film industry in the Soviet transnational conglomerate. Rather, I aim to examine the position of Georgian cinema as a national cinema par excellence, in a transcultural context par excellence.

Citation

Radunović, D. (2014). Incommensurable distance : Georgian cinema as a (trans)national cinema. In S. Bahun, & J. Haynes (Eds.), Cinema, state socialism and society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 : re-visions (49-73). Routledge

Acceptance Date	Jan 5, 2014
Online Publication Date	Jun 22, 2014
Publication Date	Jun 22, 2014
Deposit Date	Oct 15, 2012
Publicly Available Date	Aug 11, 2016
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	49-73
Series Title	BASEES/Routledge series on Russia and East European studies
Book Title	Cinema, state socialism and society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 : re-visions.
Publisher URL	http://www.routledge.com/9780415813235

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Cinema, state socialism and society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989 : re-visions. on 22/06/2014 available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780415813235