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

Radunović, Dušan

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

• 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.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1678732
• Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/9780415813235
• Contract Date: Jan 5, 2014