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Author Dobrenko, E. A. (Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich)

Title Stalinist cinema and the production of history : museum of the revolution / Evgeny Dobrenko ; translated by Sarah Young
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Contents COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Introduction: History Degree Zero; 1. The Dialectics of the Popular Monarchy; 2. History with Biography; 3. Russian Classics and the Past in its Revolutionary Development; 4. (Autobio/Bio/Hagio)graphy: Peshkov -- Gorky -- Donskoi; 5. Three Mothers: Pudovkin -- Donskoi -- Panfilov; 6. Shots from Underground: Dialectics of Conspiratorial Imagination; Index
Summary This is a major study of the place of Soviet film within the Soviet cultural system.' Jeff Brooks, The Johns Hopkins University This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history. Cinema's role in the legitimization of Stalinism and the production of a new Soviet identity was enormous. Both Lenin and Stalin saw in this 'most important of arts' the most effective form of propaganda and 'organisation of the masses'. By examining the works of the greatest Soviet filmmakers of the Stalin era - Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler - the author explores the role of the cinema in the formation of the Soviet political imagination. Key Features The first study of Stalinist cinema, which fills a gap in the history of Soviet film. Covers the works of great Soviet film directors. Focuses on Stalinist political imagination, one of the most understudied aspects of Stalinism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion pictures
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748632435
0748632433