edited by Michael Rouland, Gulnara Abikeyeva, Birgit Beumers.
London :
I.B. Tauris,
2013.
xx, 297 p :
ill
The Russian and Soviet cinema series
Index
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 era8. 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.
Motion pictures -- Asia, Central -- History.
Motion picture industry -- Asia, Central -- History.