ISBN:
9781315003078
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 277 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
DDC:
302.23/43/0947
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks the first attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development of Soviet cinema. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of the antecedents, role and consequences of Stalinism and Soviet cinema, how Stalinism emerged, what the relationship was between the political leadership, the cinema administrators, the film-makers and their films and audiences, and how Soviet cinema is coming to terms with the disintegration of established structures and mythologies. Contributors from Britain, America and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; General editor's preface; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; 1 Stalinism - the historical debate; 2 Onwards and Upwards!: the origins of the Lenin cult in Soviet cinema; 3 The 1930s and 1940s: cinema in context; 4 Soviet cinema in the age of Stalin; 5 Red stars, positive heroes and personality cults; 6 Forbidden films of the 1930s; 7 'We were born to turn a fairy tale into reality': Grigori Alexandrov's The Radiant Path; 8 The artist and the shadow of Ivan
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Soviet films of the Cold War10 Canons and careers: the director in Soviet cinema; 11 Documentary film - a Soviet source for Soviet historians; 12 The ghost that does return: exorcising Stalin; 13 Stalin is with us: Soviet documentary mythologies of the 1980s; 14 Unshelving Stalin: after the period of stagnation; Notes; Index
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