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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCloé Drieu's meticulous and engaging monograph, deftly translated from the French by Adrian Morfee, treats the former period in Uzbekistan, the first of the five republics to establish a national film industry.
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Table of ContentsNote on Transcriptions
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Decolonizing Central Asia: Film Structures and Representations (1919-1927)
Turkestan Prior to the Birth of the USSR: Revolts and "Colonial Revolution"
1. Cultural Autonomy and the Nation (1919-1924)
2. Revolutionary Exoticism and the Colonial Imaginary—Cinema and Entertainment (1924-1927)
Part 2: Cultural Revolution and Its Paradoxes: Nation, Modernity, and Empire (1927-1931)<\>
"Cinematographic Cultural Revolution"
3. The National Cinematographic Sphere
4. Uzbek Film and the Shift Towards Imperial Domination
Part 3: The Paradoxes of the Nationalities Policy: Nationalism vs. Internationalism (1931-1937)
Working as an Uzbek Artist under Stalin: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Nationalism
5. The Nationalist Cinematographic Imaginary: Subjugating Class to Nation
6. The Empire of the Proletariat—Subjugating Nation to Class
Conclusion: Social Rank in the Neoliberal Era
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
