Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories

CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
GLOSSARY
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
PART I. AT THE CINEMATIC CRADLE
	1. VOSTOKKINO AND THE FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ASIAN CINEMA
	2. BIRTH, DEATH AND REBIRTH OF A NATION: NATIONAL NARRATIVE IN UZBEK FEATURE FILMS
	3. THE VARIOUS BIRTHS OF KAZAKH CINEMA
PART II. CINEMA IN THE SOVIET REPUBLICS OF CENTRAL ASIA
	4. LANDSCAPE AND LOSS: WORLD WAR II IN CENTRAL ASIAN CINEMA
	5. FRAGMENTS FROM THE HISTORY OF TURKMEN CINEMA
	6. BULAT MANSUROV’S THE CONTEST IN CONTEXT
	7. TAJIK CINEMA AT THE END OF THE SOVIET ERA
	8. A SMALL HISTORY OF KYRGYZ CINEMA
	9. RE-VISIONS OF THE SKY OF OUR CHILDHOOD
	10. A ‘WILD KAZAKH BOY’: THE CINEMA OF RASHID NUGMANOV
PART III. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE
	11. CINEMATIC NATION-BUILDING IN KAZAKHSTAN
	12. AESTHETIC INFLUENCES IN YOUNG KAZAKH CINEMA
	13. GROWING UP IN CENTRAL ASIAN CINEMA
	14. KYRGYZ CINEMA: AN ATTEMPT AT ETERNAL BREAKTHROUGH
	15. A VIEW FROM MOSCOW: MYTHS AND REALITIES OF THE UZBEK FILM BOOM
	16. CONTEMPORARY TAJIK CINEMA IN CONTEXT: ON DJAMSHED USMONOV
PART IV. REFERENCE SECTION
	FILM-MAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES
	APPENDIX
	INDEX