Between the national and the transnational: Bulgarian post-communist cinema

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Between the national and the transnational: Bulgarian post-communist cinema

Trifonova, T; (2011) Between the national and the transnational: Bulgarian post-communist cinema. Studies in Eastern European Cinema , 2 (2) pp. 211-225. 10.1386/seec.2.2.211_1. Green open access

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Abstract

This article considers the ways in which recent Bulgarian films — Pismo do Amerika/Letter to America (Iglika Triffonova 2001), Shivachki/Seamstresses (Lyudmil Todorov 2007), Prognoza/Forecast (Zornitsa Sophia 2008), Svetat e goliam i spasenie debne otvsiakude/The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner (Stephan Komandarev 2008) and Iztochni piesi/Eastern Plays (Kamen Kalev 2009) — construct national identity in terms of two opposite movements: the movement/escape from the city to the village (imagined as a ‘return’ to the nation's roots) and the movement from Bulgaria to ‘Europe’ (similarly imagined as a ‘return’ to, or a ‘reclaiming’ of, the nation's European origins). The article argues that the dominant discourse informing post-communist Bulgarian cinema is a conservative nationalistic discourse based on an obsolete notion of national identity rooted in the nation's ethno-scape, ethno-history and ethno-memory, which are often regarded as ‘corrupted’ by post-communist developments, including village-city migration, immigration and globalization.

Type:	Article
Title:	Between the national and the transnational: Bulgarian post-communist cinema
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1386/seec.2.2.211_1
Publisher version:	https://doi.org/10.1386/seec.2.2.211_1
Language:	English
Additional information:	This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords:	Bulgarian, transnational, identity, post-communist, migration, immigration
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc)
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194910