Образи на прехода в българското посттоталитарно документално кино
Images of the Transition in Bulgarian Post-totalitarian Documentary Cinema

Author(s): Teodora Stoilova-Doncheva
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: documentary cinema; the Transition; images; models; problems; names
Summary/Abstract: The political, economic and cultural changes after 1989 had an extremely great influence on the art of the cinema in our country. They dramatically changed the content of the films and the financing organizations; furthermore, even the ranks of the people who were making cinema expanded. But the first thing Bulgarian filmmakers had to face was a new model of film production which they had to adopt so as to continue making movies. Thus, at the very beginning of the Transition, this process was under the threat of being interrupted. In preserving Bulgarian cinema after 1989, it was documentary cinema that played the key role. The present paper therefore focuses on the subject matter and the topics most often analyzed by Bulgarian documentary cinema after 1989 and the problems that film production has had to face. It covers the most significant trends from 1989 until today and concludes with an attempt to outline the most significant images of the Transition in Bulgarian post-totalitarian documentary cinema.

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