2006 Film and History League Conference „The Documentary Tradition”

AREA: The Soviet / Russian and Eastern Central European Documentary

From it’s very beginning Soviet documentary has presented models for the basic genres of documentary e.g. Dziga Vertov’s influence on all forms of ‘verite’
through to reality TV and Esfir Shub’s foundations of the ‘compilation documentary’. In more recent times ‘late’ Soviet documentary has been a potent weapon in
political change and redefinition [particularly in the work of Babak, Goldovskaya and Podnieks] whilst post-soviet documentary [not least through Sokurov]
has developed creative ways to treat the contemporary world. We are inviting submissions on all aspects of Soviet and/or Russian documentary, their reception and
their influence.

We are also considering papers which engage with Eastern Central European documentary with a focus on the negotiation between the ‘legacies’ of the past and
the ‘responses’ to the present, considered in terms of both documentary practices and of ‘local’ [national, regional] discourses about documentary.

Questions to be addressed include but are not limited to the following.detalii click sursa]