Springtime for Soviet Cinema
Author | : Alexander Prokhorov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander Prokhorov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Franz, Norbert P. |
Publisher | : Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3869564903 |
This book features four essays that illuminate the relationship between American and Soviet film cultures in the 20th century. The first essay emphasizes the structural similarities and dissimilarities of the two cultures. Both wanted to reach the masses. However, the goal in Hollywood was to entertain (and educate a little) and in Moscow to educate (and entertain a little). Some films in the Soviet Union as well as in the United States were conceived as clear competition to one another – as the second essay demonstrates – and the ideological opponent was not shown from its most advantageous side. The third essay shows how, in the 1980s, the different film cultures made it difficult for the Soviet director Andrei Konchalovsky to establish himself in the US, but nevertheless allowed him to succeed. In the 1960s, a genre became popular that tells the story of the Russian Civil War using stylistic features of the Western: The Eastern. Its rise and decline are analyzed in the fourth essay.
Author | : Richard Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521088558 |
The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties.
Author | : Anna Lawton |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1992-11-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521388146 |
An examination of soviet cinema under Glasnost and Perestrokïa.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Claire Knight |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2024-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501776193 |
Stalin's Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. While film censorship reached its apogee in this period and fewer films were made, film attendance also peaked as Soviet audiences voted with their seats and distinguished a clearly popular postwar cinema. Claire Knight examines the tensions between official ideology and audience engagement, and between education and entertainment, inherent in these popular films, as well as the financial considerations that shaped and constrained them. She explores how the Soviet regime used films to address the major challenges faced by the USSR after the Great Patriotic War (World War II), showing how war dramas, spy thrillers, Stalin epics, and rural comedies alike were mobilized to consolidate an official narrative of the war, reestablish Stalinist orthodoxy, and dramatize the rebuilding of socialist society. Yet, Knight also highlights how these same films were used by filmmakers more experimentally, exploring a diverse range of responses to the ideological crisis that lay at the heart of Soviet postwar culture, as a victorious people were denied the fruits of their sacrificial labor. After the war, new heroes were demanded by both the regime and Soviet audiences, and filmmakers sought to provide them, with at times surprising results. Stalin's Final Films mines Soviet cinema as an invaluable resource for understanding the unique character of postwar Stalinism and the cinema of the most repressive era in Soviet history.
Author | : Lida Oukaderova |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 025302708X |
Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw became known for its relative political and cultural liberalization; its films, formally innovative and socially engaged, were swept to the center of international cinematic discourse. In The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw, Lida Oukaderova provides an in-depth analysis of several Soviet films made between 1958 and 1967 to argue for the centrality of space—as both filmic trope and social concern—to Thaw-era cinema. Opening with a discussion of the USSR's little-examined late-fifties embrace of panoramic cinema, the book pursues close readings of films by Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgii Danelia, Larisa Shepitko and Kira Muratova, among others. It demonstrates that these directors' works were motivated by an urge to interrogate and reanimate spatial experience, and through this project to probe critical issues of ideology, social progress, and subjectivity within post–Stalinist culture.
Author | : Caroline Damiens |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2024-09-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350269891 |
In A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980. Damiens combines a detailed analysis of key works such as Forest People (1928), Igdenbu (1930), Dersu Uzala (1961 & 1975), Tymancha's Friend (1969) and The Most Beautiful Ships (1972), with primary sources like press articles, archives, and interviews, to reveal how these cinematic portrayals were created and negotiated, providing insight into the concepts of progress and authenticity in the Soviet context. She emphasises the role of indigenous individuals in shaping their cinematic image, both in front of and behind the camera, highlighting the works of lesser-known figures like Suntsai Geonka, Zinaida Pikunova, and Iurii Rytkheu. In doing so, Damiens emphasises the multifaceted nature of film, where interpretations differ based on the perspectives of those involved. Using a decolonial approach and drawing from extensive archival materials, Damiens prompts a re-evaluation of the Soviet cinematic past and present by centring indigenous voices in the narrative. In doing so, she provides a thorough exploration of the intricate relationship between culture, representation, and identity in Soviet cinema.
Author | : Jay Leyda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : |
Author | : I︠U︡riĭ Voront︠s︡ov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |