World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Setting the Stage for Soviet and Afro-Asian Solidarity at Tashkent
	Tashkent Festival as Cold War Soft Power
	Selection Process
	Festival Audiences
	Music and Dance as Cultural Diplomacy and Lived Experience
	Festival as a Cultural State of Exception
	The Bandung and the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR
	Euphoria of the Thaw and Decolonization in the Soviet Union
	International Film Festival Circuit  in the Soviet Bloc
	1960s Socialist Internationalism
	Emergence of Cuba as a Third-Worldist Leader
	Soviet Central Asia in the Afro-Asian Cultural Network
	Soviet Imperial Legacies, Socialist Universalism, and World Culture
	Cinefication of the Soviet East
	Film Import-Export in the Soviet Union
	Soviet Film Culture of the Late 1960s
	1968 in World Film Culture
	Conclusion
2. Tashkent 1968
	Overview
	India’s Participation
	Chinnamul and Indian Independent Cinema
	K. A. Abbas, Raj Kapoor, and the Success of the Indian Mainstream in the USSR
	India’s 1968 Festival Selection
	Japan’s Participation
	Japanese Cinema on the Global Film Circuits
	Japan’s 1968 Festival Selection
	Egypt’s Participation
	Other Arab and North African Cinemas
	Carthage and Tashkent
	Festival Selections
	The Palestinian Film Unit
	Sub-Saharan African Cinema at Tashkent
	Soviet-African Cinematic Exchanges
	The Sub-Saharan Festival Selection
	Conclusion
3. Tashkent 1972-1980
	Global Geopolitical Developments
	Changes in Soviet Cultural Policies and Their Impact on Festival Programming
	Soviet (Re)Orientation Toward Popular Cinema
	Nonfiction Modalities
	South Asia
	Cinemas of Bangladesh and Pakistan
	Palestinian Cinema
	Iraqi, Syrian, and Afghan Cinemas
	Iran and Turkey
	Africa
	Latin American Cinema
	New Latin American Cinema
	Cuba and (Tri)Continental Politics
	Other Latin American Cinemas, Old and New
	Chilean Cinema and Modes of Solidarity
	Conclusion
4. Tashkent Festival Critical Discourses
	Roundtable Discussions
	Cinema at the Festivals
	Geopolitics of Film Monopolies
	Cinema as a Weapon
	(Socialist) Realism and the Question of National Culture
	Popular Cinema vs. Political Avant-Gardes
	The Filmmaker’s Social  and Institutional Role
	Sexuality on the Screen
5. The Woman Question at Tashkent and World Socialist (Women’s) Cinema
	Parandzha and the Woman’s Question in Soviet Central Asia
	International Women’s Diplomacy between Second and Third Worlds
	Melodrama in World Socialist Cinemas
	Gender Politics from the Soviet Thaw to Late Socialism
	Gendered Discourses and Practices at the Festival
	Stardom at Tashkent
	Women’s Cinema in World Socialist Cinema
	Socialist Women and the Double Burden
6. World Cinema of Socialist  Industrial Modernity
	The Geographies and Temporalities of Socialist Modernity
	Socialist Industrial Development
	Industrial Documentary
	The Spectacle of Socialist Industrial Modernization
	A Culture of Experts
	Film Essay on the Euphrates Dam
	Building the High Dam
	People on the Nile, 1968
	People on the Nile: Take 2
	The Two Versions: What Changed?
	Saving the Nubian Monuments
7. Cultural Heritage in World  Socialist Cinema
	A Politics of the Past
	Heritage Cinema
	Heritage Cinema at Tashkent
	Epics and Socialist World Heritage Cinema
	Central Asian Epics and National Heritage
	Central Asian Heritage and Internationalism
	Al-Biruni: Millennial Celebration
	Abu Reyhan Biruni: The Film
	The Rustam Trilogy and Its Antecedents
	The Rustam Trilogy: The “Asian” Aesthetic
	Shahnameh’s Ambiguities
	Specific Universals of Socialist World Heritage Cinema
8. World Socialist Cinema  of Armed Struggle
	The People’s War
	The Marxist Worldview and the Violence of (Socialist) Modernity
	The Fight for Peace
	1970s Soviet War Films
	Japanese Antiwar Epics
	Yamamoto’s Men and War Trilogy
	Cinemas of the Anti-imperialist  Military Hot Spots
	Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema
	Stop Genocide
	Women as War Heroes
	Concrete Universals of Socialist War
	Tragic Endings
	Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index