Why Look to Canines in Eastern European film?

Foreman, Lucy Joyce (2025) Why Look to Canines in Eastern European film? Masters thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

When looking to the representation of canines within cinema, academic studies are often concerned with how the canine is presented within popular cinema, commercially successful films that reach a broad normative audience. This study moves away from the exploration of canines within popular cinema to explore canine representation within Eastern European Cinema, in doing so this thesis aims to highlight the distinct rationale for exploring canine conversations within an Eastern European location, as the contextual history of the East’s post-Soviet past creates a space where canine marginalisation and disparity is concentrated and readily visible. This thesis suggests the commonality of the treatment of dogs in post-Soviet nations produces the definition of Eastern Europe, placing an anthropocentric take on debates concerning the complexities of defining Eastern Europe. Through this approach I aim to undertake a filmic analysis of Eastern European filmic texts to further understand the interconnected nature of canine representation, canine possibilities, roles and functions, and human-non-human spaces as geographically charged. 2

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Media, Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	Chris White
Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2026 12:58
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2026 12:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102823
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