List of Illustrations Introduction Masha Shpolberg and Lukas Brasiskis Part I: Industrializing the Bloc: Cinema of the Socialist Period Chapter 1. Sad Landscapes: Panoramic Photography and Documentary Film in the Czech Lands Katie Trumpener and Alice Lovejoy Chapter 2. From Mastery to Indistinction: Nature in Thaw-Era Cinema Lida Oukaderova Chapter 3. Spectres of Ecology in Cold War Soviet Science Fiction Film Natalija Majsova Part II: Environmental Crisis and the Nuclear Imaginary Chapter 4. Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes: The End of August at the Hotel Ozone and the Czechoslovak New Wave Barbora Bartunkova Chapter 5. Fallow Fields: Crises of Masculinity and Ecology in Piotr Andrejew's 'Tender Spots' Eliza Rose Chapter 6. Catastrophe, Obliquely: The Revival of the Essay Film Form in Soviet Documentaries About Chernobyl Masha Shpolberg Part III: Animals Between the Natural and the Social Chapter 7. Animals in Modernity: Shaping the Urban Landscape in Lithuanian Documentary Natalija Arlauskaite Chapter 8.

Mongrelizing Interpretation: The Animal in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema Raymond DeLuca Part IV: From Communism to Capitalism: Privatization and the Commons Chapter 9. Okraina and 'Oil Ontology' in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema José Alaniz Chapter 10. The Commercialization and Destruction of Nature in Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema Dina Iordanova Part V: Towards an Eastern European Eco-cinema Chapter 11. Coming to the Senses: Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Slovenian Cinema Meta Mazaj Chapter 12. Cinema of the Forest People: Environmental Consciousness, Authorship and Genre in Post-1989 Polish Film Kris Van Heuckelom Chapter 13. Beyond the Utopian Landscape in Post-Soviet Russian Cinema Jeremi Szaniawski and Michael Cramer Chapter 14. Recycling, Citroën Cars, and Roma Refugees in Boris Mitic's Pretty Dyana (2003) Alice Bardan Chapter 15. From Water to Wind: Elemental Critique in Recent Eastern European Video Art Lukas Brasiskis.