Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia by Rico Isaacs manual for survival and the Kremlin that co-opted

and the Kremlin that co-opted them

radical instrument for the expression of his ideas

Yevgeniy Fiks

Сергей Плохий – профессор истории в Гарвардском университете

and the faithful stenographer Anna

Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia by Rico Isaacs manual for survival and the Kremlin that co-optedCinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation the 'imagining' of Central Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested. Drawing on an analysis of Kazakh films from the last century, and featuring new interviews with directors and critics involved in the Central Asian film