CONTENTS

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 ERA

8. 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

INDEX