Film and Identity in Kazakhstan av Rico (University of Lincoln UK) Isaacs

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Cinema 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 industry, his book traces the construction of nationalism within Kazakh cinema from the country''s inception as a Soviet Republic to a modern independent nation.Isaacs identifies four narratives since the collapse of the Soviet Union: a warrior-like ''ethnic'' narrative rooted in the 18th Century struggles against the Mongolian Oirat tribes; a ''civic'' inspired narrative cemented in the Stalinist deportations of the 1930s and 40s; a religious narrative founded within the mystic and philosophical religion of Tengrism and the cult of the Sk