The red screen : politics, society, art in Soviet cinema / edited by Anna Lawton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawton, Anna (Anna M.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Soviet Union.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 360 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An original collection of essays by leading international Soviet cinema scholars, covering seventy years of cinema history, providing a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of Soviet cinema.

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: An Interpretive Survey; Government Policies and Practical Necessities in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920's; Ideology and Popular Culture in Soviet Cinema: The Kiss of Mary Pickford; Cinema as Social Criticism: The Early Films of Fridrikh Ermler; Cinematic Abstraction as a Means of Conveying Ideological Messages in The Man with the Movie Camera; The Kinetic Icon and the Work of Mourning: Prolegomena to the Analysis of a Textual System; Mr Kuleshov in the Land of the Modernists; Films of the Second World War; The New Wave in Soviet Cinema

The War and Kozintsev's Films Hamlet and King Lear The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Cinema; Russian Nationalist Themes in Soviet Film of the 1970's; Socialist Realism and American Genre Film: The Mixing of Codes in Jazzman; Art and Propaganda in the Soviet Union, 1980-5; Alexei German, or the Form of Courage; Scarecrow and Kindergarten: A Critical Analysis and Comparison; The Cinema of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian Soviet Republics; Historical Time in Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Kirghiz Cinema; Does a Film Writing of History Exist? The Case of the Soviet Union; The Anthill in the Year of the Dragon; With Perestroika, without Tarkovsky; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-89925-4

1-134-89926-2

0-203-30991-X

1-280-05334-8

0-203-41798-4

OCLC:

437082017