[PDF] Changing Trends In Soviet Cinema eBook

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1979-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521222907

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The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties.

Author : Franz, Norbert P.
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3869564903

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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 : Anna Lawton
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1122848501

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An expanded edition of Kinoglasnost that examines the fascinating world of Soviet cinema during the yeas of glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. In Before the Fall, Anna Lawton shows how the reforms that shook the foundations of the Bolshevik state and affected economic and social structures have been reflected in the film industry. A new added chapter provides a commentary on the dramatic changes that marked the beginning of democracy in Russia. Soviet cinema has always been closely connected with national political reality, challenging the conventions of bourgeois society and educating the people. In this pioneering study, Lawton discusses the restructuring of the main institutions governing the industry; the abolition of censorship; the emergence of independent production and distribution systems; the dismantling of the old bureaucratic structures and the implementation of new initiatives. She also surveys the films that remained unscreened for decades for political reasons, films of the new wave that look at the past to search out the truth, and those that record current social ills or conjure up a disquieting image of the future. “What makes Kinoglasnost pre-eminent among current studies of the subject is that sustained attention Lawton pays to changes in the formal organization of Soviet cinema and in the cinema industry.” —Julian Graffy, Sight and Sound “The author constructs a complex, multilayered narrative of a steady and significant movement toward radical change in Soviet society, an account of the growing anxiety and the hope experienced by Russian filmmakers and the intelligentsia.” —Ludmila Z. Pruner, Slavic and East European Journal

Author : Anna Lawton
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1992-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521388146

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An examination of soviet cinema under Glasnost and Perestrokïa.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781138675773

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This book examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change and whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. It considers a range of films and film-makers and explores their attitudes to genre, character and aesthetic style.

Author : Derek Spring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136128360

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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 the Soviet Union address themselves to the importance of the Stalinist legacy, not only to the history of Soviet cinema but to Soviet history as a whole.

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0253221870

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This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. Several chapters focus on the difficulties of fulfilling the paternal function, while others show how vertical and horizontal male bonds are repeatedly strained by the pressure of redefining an embattled masculinity in a shifting political landscape.