Post-revolution nonfiction film : building the Soviet and Cuban nations / Joshua Malitsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malitsky, Joshua.

Series:

New Directions in National Cinemas

New directions in national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Political aspects--Soviet Union.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--Political aspects--Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize society

Contents:

Introduction: revolutionary rupture and national stability

Kino-nedelia, early documentary, and the performance of a new collective, 1917-1921

A cinema looking for people: the individual and the collective in immediate post-revolutionary Cuban nonfiction film

the dialectics of thought and vision in the films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927

(Non)alignments and the new revolutionary man

Esfir Shub, factography, and the new documentary historiography

The object of revolutionary history: Santiago Alvarez's commemorative newsreels and chronicle documentaries, 1972-1974.

Notes:

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299243460

1299243460

9780253007704

0253007704

OCLC:

835110422