Second history of Soviet Belarusian cinema

This book is written as a series of research essays, where each chapter is devoted to a new plot from the history of Soviet Belarusian cinema in the 1920s-1980s.

Each such plot was born from questions without an unequivocal answer, asked from the present: how and why to watch Soviet Belarusian cinema today? What can Belgoskino films from the NEP and Belarusianization period tell? Is it possible to consider Soviet Belarusian cinema as colonial and what meanings does this approach open up and obscure? traces of what political processes does the image of the "Soviet Belarusian", how was it created, in what forms did it exist after the war and Stalin's death? How did the Belarusian screen shape the historical imagination of the audience in different Soviet periods, and to what extent was the depth of Belarusian history viewed on the screen? What alternatives to "Soviet Belarus" did "Belarusfilm" create in the 1960-80s, were they "internal dissidence", a form of cultural resistance, the author's mastery of a new film style? On what lines was the deconstruction of "Soviet Belarusian" and Soviet society in the films of the Perestroika period, and why did this process fail so quickly?